EMPLOYERS IN CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 245, 9 October 1908, Page 2

EMPLOYERS IN CONFERENCE.

By Tciegraph,-- t J ress Association. 1 Wellington, Last iNuint. 11k* hmployers' i'ederation Conference passed resolutions to-day strongly opposing by e\ery Jiieans m ir,s power tiK! I graining ot preference to in iiny idi;;i; llkii tlie Conference considers that the spirit and intention of the industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act Las been perverted in that the MrJblriitiun Loun iixes the standard of 1 wage for workers ius.-eaa ol true jiwnnutiii wages, and urges employers and their representatives before t'lic Court to emphasise this fact and to endeavor to secure the fixing of a minimum wage; ; That the present condition of tile iluxmilling industry with the State regulation of cost of production, where the price of product cannot be regulated by Ihe State or by the producer, is wrong in principle. Further resolutions were passed as follows:—That the Federation deeply deplores the various attacks that have been made from time to time by tue trades' unions of the Dominion. Jn our opinion the Arbitration Court has been particularly fortunate in having been presided over by able and conscientious men from its first president (Mr. Justice Williams) down to Mr. Justice Sim. All have been actuated by a deep I desire to do justice to all classes, and have at times given labor even more 'than i.ts due, with a view of allaying , iit>v/>qf. whip'li line from Uin<» In I.imp

manifested itself among the workers. This being so, employers generally look upon these attacks as unfounded and unwarranted and aiming at tin- destruction of tliat confidence which is so essential and which up till iccently all flasses liave re,posed in the Judges of tho Dominion. That the dairying, agricultural and (laxmilling industries should be 'exempt from tire working of t : !;v Arbitration A(-l. The Conference has closed.