Trades Council.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 81, 9 April 1904, Page 3

Trades Council.

A LONG STRING 01? WANTS. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, April 8. Yesterday afternoon Ihe Council resolved tliut clause 27 he amended by ihe addition oi " and on every employer and worker engaged in the industry to which the agreement applies in the industrial district in which the agreement is liled, provided that any employer or workeij other than the members oi the industrial unions or individual purlies to the agreement may within six weeks of dates of tiling lodge any objection thereto with the clerk of the industrial district, and such otfjectioais shall bo heard Uy the Arbitration Court at its firm tilttings" ; that the Uovernmenl should oe urged to increase the laud and income lax and abolish the duties on the necessaries of life. ft was uUo resolved that tho Minister for Uailaavs should be urgcu io ruite the wagv.s for casual labour, sj that it ehourd not be less than tin: uisirict rate of wages puhl in oilier employ ntt-ms for casual lubIt Was further tvaolved that the uoverument be uigvd to establish tailoring, boot, ami saddlery iaclOius, iron-works, ami iron shipimilvdiig yurds, and nationalise li.e marine cous-.ul ami intercolonial »r----vicis. The coiiLivuce lvsuhed to urge an uniiimnttiu of ihe •Uachincry Act Py pio.iuii.g for the is.-me of timd-ciass ccili..caics for engines with uu area oi u circular inches and up io ami .licll.'uii.g vlymy , wlll ;l Qli.Mcl ..lea of ill inches. 'J'his aitcriioon ti.e following- u-sti-l-.tions jw-re earned :—That Ine con.eivnce is of op.nion that an tndep«nu.nt la.'.om- pa. ty should be formed iiiui.ediuu-ly, (o elite lively organise ••ml secure pioper. ropreseniution in i urli. uieiiL and o.i m..iii.i|.al aim o.liw bodies {u.) to secure such leg-i.s- ---• ulion as w.ll l.e for ti.e Ut-neOt ol u.e people and ihe colony as a .vhole, lb) to conserve and protect u.c ng'his alivauy secured io unpeople, and (c) tuat when the dele-S-los assemble in Hollingtou to lay oc-fore the Government xlnj deliberations oi the conference they shouM he .ust.-uctej to fonaulato a const: tuthe resolution curiini jn lavour of an independent labour party lor the ivhoio colony, ami submit the i.anic io various lounuls for considerationthat ib ß icwYivnce Klmuld request the Government to introduce legislation provioing that where male and female workers are employed thev should receive W ju a l pay ,or equal worn, and that the Government should bu nsked to feiuj 91 2!f to .this principle in the cMucauo,; and "hero' ""veriuwnt departments Mere males and leiuales are emplov«l in doing the same class 0 f wo»k, A luouon in favour oi opening u the country ~y a . J> railways was los^t

At the evening sitting the f „ '«* .e Su luu,„ s H ,, x . ™2[ tn« law for the legulal.oi, ~' i , ;l ; cUo n8b ean len 1 end L rto t : ovl0 0 - ° f tha Act ft*. ~ion\f -S? J '.otes lor the „ u f ' "•fe r the unfinished main (,„„i. ~ ■ "ther important r u il„- av S now m course 1)f construe,,,,,,, and ~ r with 7V^' U t{ ri Z"yU-' iU ' W " rka exchange lor"the intermu'"^^ 1 of the colony; ,| mt all , u . t , °J "'iking it compulsory thut nil Li," |, manufactured in the C()Iom . ~, ~, l s ped '• made in .w y A . ah ; n( , ■■' | '" that all maide in fa.Lnorics or warehouses be sla,„pcd „,ii, „'. name oi the actual manufacturers that the conference should m .',, 0 all unionist constituents of „,em hers of Parliament who v„w,l agl amst preierence of emplovmenl to unionists last session to \ote .„„. uiiist such mentis at the nextW•vlion, and that the names of the said menders l,e rirculut,,! throughout the colony by the executive •• that the Government should he m-ir-•'|l 1" legislate to provide r,,,. , right oi the people tolls), i„ ~" rivers lak.-s and running streams in the colony, sulyjccl t„ ,| M , ,„,,.. cssary close season as provided | lv law. and that provision he made lor access („ ||„. K ,,„ u . hv s ,, ujl „ r asale one chain of land all round the watei edge, except within cilv or village boundaries; that t|,'e haulage rales on minerals should He wf.iah.seil ; that the law as between landlord and tenant he placed upon the same footing as that relating to any other creditor; ( | ml a uniform set of school hooks should be adopted by the EducalWn Department for the schools of the colony, such hooks to he manufactured liy the Government and sold at cost price.

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