WATERSIDE WORKERS' CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 164, 2 July 1908, Page 2

WATERSIDE WORKERS' CONFERENCE.

I liy Telegraph—Press Association. j Wellington, Last Night. |.U the waterside workers' conference lif day further! consideration was given J<l Wilt remit iVm the executive regardilia' tin' offer from tlie New Zealand .So(ifilist Tarty that the Federation could fcve the free use of some forty inches »( space in tin. "Commonweal" if it wknild undertakv.to distribute a certain nuiuher of conicK A motion to accept t% oiler and tlmf the Union should bS recommended to receive copies and See (q their distribution whs defeated by 10 •'files to (i. Tlie following resolutions yre adopted: Tint tlie attention of the Uu\ ernment be dmwu to the amount of ■face at present alloted to men shovelling to«l, und that the conference draft a resolution requesting the Government to reintroduce legislation providing for ample space for each man engaged shovelling in th e hold; that the Government bo requested to introduce legislation I compelling „|| .shipowners to have some protection around all open hatehwavs during working houtSj that it be a recommendation to the conference to increase the capitation per member so as jtonormit of the 'Federation defraving rJPI I>C ' llscs of 'Whites to the nimual coT/<T|'eiiee; and that the executive. make rcpresentaioi, ( 0 the Government and shipping companies in regard to a reduction of fares; that the Government be urged to amend the Workers' Compensation for Accidents Act in the direction of allowing industrial unions to ask as agents io assist individual inem bers lu making claims under the JalMr laws of New Zealand. |