PROPOSED LABOR PARLIAMENT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8027, 13 January 1906, Page 2

PROPOSED LABOR PARLIAMENT

OTAGO EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATION WITHDRAW. REASOXS IX EXTEXSO.

I'KR pbess .issonvrrox. Dusmms, January 11. At a special mooting of the Otago ; Employers' Association to consider the question of sending a delegate to the proposed Lnhor Parliament, the following resolution was passed :—" That as the Premier has ignored his statement i to the employers of the Colony that he recognised its industries had as much to carry as they could hear, and has set aside the Arbitration Act by ignoring the carefully considered judgment of the Court in the industrial disputes iu Westlaud affecting the coal and gold mining industries—a judgment given after a most painstaking inquiry—he has also ignored the recommendations of the Labor Bill's Committees of both Houses, together with tho evidence tendered before these tribunals relating to the matter, by passing Section i of 'The Mining Act Amendment Act, 1905,' this union of employers is of opinion that no good purposes can be served by the Conference proposed to bo held in Christchurch next mouth, and declines to send any representative to it." The Secretary of the Association, in a letter to the Labor Department, enlarges on the points in the resolution and with respect to the ' bank to bank' clause, denies that it was demanded by the workers and points as proof to the fact that at the Arbitration Court proceedings, the Granity Creek Union, numbering 50 ! ) members, after careful consideration, withdrew from the proceedings. The secretary concludes: " I nm instructed to say, and to say with all sincerity, that if the bona tide workers make any approaches or show n willingness to meet the employers in the way of dung something to aid our languishing industries, the Otago Employers Association will not only meet them gladly, but assist them in every way to bring about better results than are obtainable under present conditions. The proposed conference is, in the opinion of the Otago Association, doomed to failure, and there is in fact no possibility of any satisfactory results arising under the conditions which have been laid down in connection with it."