THE PROPOSED LABOUR CONFERENCE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7950, 13 October 1905, Page 2

THE PROPOSED LABOUR CONFERENCE

l » (Per Press Association.) DUNEJUN, Oct. 12. c_ Mr J. C. )Thomson, President of '« the Employers' Federation, has re- '• eeived a wire from the Premier re the proposal Labour Conference as follows "JVlegNvtes representing vaL rions brunches -are tc submit their own views to the conference. There will, be the 'general questio-n of t'he 1 " tariff ; its bearing upon industries, whether mining, agricultural, or commerce ; trusts ami their effects m upon internal and -external trade; 1 the relations-hip existing between employers ami employed ; how capiio tul and labour are affected 'by exist? is ing ami, if any amendment. Is necessary, in what, direction; the development of industries, mining, etc. ; -how industries can be best formed for which the conditions of the colony ai-e naturally favourable, such as cloth manufacture, id and how is the same affected 'by live si importation of cloth mixed material. This is only the fringe of the larg-e fjues-tions which I hepe the Confer[j. enec*will -deal with, nml I am conly suiting those at the head or orgvTivi- [), sations so as to have a proper i- ageirda prepared when the conference 2, meets."

Mr Thomson lias replied that the majority vote ot the Federation is oppose;! to the conference) at present. The scope is too wRK', it is too late for legislation this session, and the matter is too important to be dealt with summarily.