Trades and Labour Council.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7806, 26 April 1905, Page 3

Trades and Labour Council.

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, April 25. The annual Conference of Trades and Labour Councils opened its business sitting' this morning. The annual report was discussed at length. Some of the Dunodin and Auckland delegates took exception to tho way the report girded at the Government. Mr McCullough (Christ church) said tho report had girded at the Government for years past, because the Government had been doing little or nothing for tho workers. A committee was set up to recomOiend what shops, if any, should b« exempt, from the Shops and Oflices Act. Resolutions were carried : That tho Government be urged to establish clothing and boot factories, iron works and shipbuilding yards, flour and woollen mills, ami to nationalise marine and all sources of mineral production ; that it is ad- j visablo to bring about the establishment of State or municipal coal depots ; that the Government be urged to introduca legislation restricting the importation of labour under contract ; that nil shops shali bo compelled to close on live working days at 6 p.m., and at 1 p.m. on Saturdays subject to necessary exceptions ; that the Minister for Railways be urged to raise the wages of casual labour so that it shall not be less than the district rate of wages paid In other employments for casual labour ; that there be no further sale of Crown lands ; that there be periodical re-valuations of Crown, leases, but no re-valuation of existing leases to take place until the death of the lessee or the transfer of the leasp ; that the Workers Compensation for Accidents Act be amended so as to apply to every section of female wage earners.