INDUSTRIAL PEACE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 268, 2 February 1928, Page 10

INDUSTRIAL PEACE

NATIONAL INQUIRY ALL PARTIES REPRESENTED Press Association. WELLINGTON, Wednesday. A meeting of directors appointed by the Prime Minister to consider preliminary proposals for tne investigation of the industrial laws of the Dominion was held at Parliament House this morning. The Prime Minister presided, the Minister of Labour, the Hon. G. J. Anderson also representing the Government. The parties in the House were represented by Sir John Luke, Messrs. J. A. Nash and F. Waite (Reform Party) ; H. E. Holland, Leader of the Opposition. and M. J. Savage (Labour), and T. M. Wilford and E. A. Ransom (Nationalist Party),

After sitting for two and a half hottrs the committee rose till three o'clock in the afternoon. March 27 was fixed as the date for the inaugural conference, which will be attended by representatives of the employers, workers, political parties, departments of State, banking, and other financial institutions and economists. The agenda includes: Investigation of the effect of the present system of industrial legislation of the welfare of the country on the interests of employers and workers, and on the primary industries. The possibility of adjusting the effects of awards and agreements on the primary industries. The basis of fixing award rates payment by piecework. Constitution of the Arbitration Court. Preference to unionists. Apprenticeship, immigration, and improved methods of avoiding industrial disturbances.