WORK AND WAGES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 179, 21 August 1909, Page 2

WORK AND WAGES

THE OTIRA DEADIOOK.

j By Telegraph.—Press Association. I Tt, i , ' Greymouth, Friday. ihc deadlock at Otira continues. The chief development is that they will oe paid oil at noon to-morrow, when thuv must give up possession of their huts. *

A PANACEA JOR ALL ILLS. ti. wt , -, WeHington, Friday, ilie Waterside Workers' Conference affirmed the principle of the nationalisaHon ol land as the only solution of Labors economic troubles; also urged that aih port should provide its own laboreis to work vessels.

WATERSIDE WORKERS' COX FERENCE.

Un } Velli "f;ton, Last Night. At the Waterside. Workers' Con'erdelegates (McCann and Jones Wellington) questioned the right Of the secretary (Mr. D. McLaren, M.P ) hen I'' " M m Sai(l *« UM-H as a delegate ex ollicio, and he explained that when the Umfcrencii opened. After a rathe,, turbulent d : s cuss,on, the Conference supported Mr to vr.Vir "f "ml Junes the; did, rom tllU L,#n,w ™". »™'j

LOCAL PATRIOTISM. I Dunedin, Last Night. | A deputation of boilcruiakers, hitrodnced by Mr. Arnold, M.P.. waited on | the Hon. J. A. Millar to-night to invoke I His assistance m preventing the importation ot articles which could be made |in the dominion. They instanced a "asbolder in the vicinity erected bv "the City Corporation, also „ rotary' kiln ejected by a cement company, aiid aNo Jlftinted out that several steamers built outside the dominion could be built here as well it s dredges, yet three of the. •' it were Imported late.lv. The Minis- ' s inpathised with the deputation, • >;i i unwilling to undertake another tai ill revision, one being enough for anv man in a lifetime, lie ended nis somewhat lengthy yemarks bv a suggestion that it was the duty of'local bodies to keep work in the dominion if possible.