PETONE WOOLLEN MILL

Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 485, 2 July 1890, Page 5

PETONE WOOLLEN MILL

ANOTHER TROUBLE,

Wellington, June 30. A srECiAL meeting of the Trade and Labour Council was held at the Trades Hall to consider the Petone Woollen Mill difficulty, it being alleged in some quarters that the compact entered into had not been carried out. Upwards of thirty members were present, and the proceedings, which were conducted privately, are said to have been of a particularly lively nature. Mr Fisher, secretary of the Council, explained the outcome of his personal investigation of the mill difficulty, and stated that the compact made between him and Mr T. K. Alacdonald, chairman of the directors of the Woollen Company, had been faithfully carried out. The president of the Council (Mr Graham), the vicepresident (Mr Kit to), Miss Lundon (an exoperative, but at present in the mill), and Mr Grey (president of the Tram and ’Bus Union) repudiated the compact. Mr Macdonald said that Mr Fisher by his utterances from the public platform and also by his letters to the newspapers, had wronged him. Still he (Alacdonald) forgot all that, in order to go freely into an equitable adjustment of the mill difficulty. The result of his action was that the directors of the Company had loyally carried out the decision of the Council. Ultimately it was resolved that a committee consisting of Messrs Butler, Cooper, and Johnson, should be appointed to test the righteousness of the compact entered into between Mi Macdonald and Air Fisher, and report if possible to a meeting next Thursday. Air I). P. Fisher has resigned the secretaryship of the Federated Trades Council.