LABOUR'S GRIEVANCES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 5 October 1907, Page 5

LABOUR'S GRIEVANCES.

Per Press Association. ! Dunklin, October 3. I In reference to the importation of fc- \ m;ik's into X<-\v Zealand from the Home i Country or the boot trade, the following j Wiis ]»n>-cd by the Otago Trades and Labor Council this evening: "That the (inveninivnt Ih_* urged to give immediate effect to the resolution passed by the recent Trades and Labor Conferenee. namely. 'That legislation be introduced to rr*triet inij>ort?tion of labor under contract whether male or female." Mr R. Breen. secretary of the Council, handed in his resignation. The Council also parsed the following : resolution: '"That in the opinion of thi* Council the statement made by Hon. J. Millar. Minister of Labor, recently at Wellington to the effect that anybody who had b»>en any length of time at the hii-dness knew how resolution- could be carried by unions (one of which had been !*' ■ *nt!y pa--ed at a meeting where there wfre only seven members present) is uncalled for; and this Council regrets that he should have so far forgotten himself as <.o cast reflections on the j majority of the unions in this DominI ion, to a large nuinWr of whom he owes his present exalted position."