Auckland Trades and Labour Council.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43071, 21 March 1907, Page 2

Auckland Trades and Labour Council.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This DayThe Trades and Labour Council, nf’er discussing the question as to whether the Arbitration Act had been beneficial to New Zealand, decided to instruct its delegates to the Trades and Labour Conference that the Auckland Council is of opinion that the Act as it stands had been of benefit to the colony. The Council approved of a remit to the Conference urging the government to increase the import duty on all printed matter at least 25 percent. The plstform adopted by the Labour candidates for the munici pal elections included rating on unim - proved values, power by initiative to demand a vote on any policy proposed, better sanitary maintenance of back streets, municipalising of the sanitary service, municipal market for fish, fruit and moat, and a depot for the sterilisation of the city’s milk supply, workers’ homes and speedy demolition of insanitary dwellings, union wage fixed for afi employees of the Council,