EMPLOYERS' FEDERATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 264, 31 October 1908, Page 2

EMPLOYERS' FEDERATION.

Ity Telegraph—Press Association. ~ ~ Dunodiu, Last Night, I At the umiuiil meeting- of the Jim- | plovers Association to-day, the prose jl''Ut (Mr. J. (J Thomson) condemned legislation by exhaustion ami said Jliii- _ should prepare work for the session so taat members could »vt to work at mice. Ho said more perjury was committed in the Arbitration Court m a month than in the Supreme Court in a year, ami the worst feature of it "as the combined perjury carefully n-e-P»i-e<l 'beforehand, lie 'said )):■ could give an instance where a union secretary was deliberately instruct]';]..- witiiesses Hi a country hotel („ swear falsely. .Speaking on the cn„l of living "e said the present standard was far too nigh, la seconding- I lie motion f„» (tie adoption of the report, .Mr. ,1. Me' (Jregor said the work of foundries was falling oil' very iniieh of late years owing almost entirely to the increased cost of production. j,ucnl foundries were unable to compete will] (lie Home markets and were being squeezed out in consequence. ,j| v , 'T|„ m is»ii, lWas re-elected jireside.it.