WORK AND WAGES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 227, 30 October 1909, Page 2

WORK AND WAGES.

TRADES AND LABOR COXFIiRENCE. By Telegraph—Press Association. \\'elliiig(on, October 211. The Labor Conference to-day all'irnied the betterment principle in coinection with railway construction with the object of putting it on a more scientific and dilutable basis in the hope that it will act as a curb on political inllnence. I lie rjiiestioii nf defence and the oucstion of compulsory military trainingare being discussed by the conference this alternoon. Wellington, Last Xiglit. The Labor Conference passed resolutions asking the Government to legislate for tin.' provision of proper accommodation for sawmill workers'; that all goods manufactured in New Zealand should be so branded; that the conference protests against the free emigration of domestic servants; that the Government should go in more extensively for building workers' homes in the larger towns outside lhe. chief centre; that the Government should bring down a rair I'ent Hill next session. IvAIIAVAYMEX AXD THE ARBITRATION ACT..

Dannevirke, Otoher 2<t, At a nieetinn; „f railway men held tojdav the folloivjii«r resolution was passed: j Ihat this meeting, representing all grades of the radwav service, protests against, any' alteration of the clause in the Arbitral ion and Co iciliation Act referring to the Society of Railway .Servants, believing the same to ho detrimental to its' progress and to railway men in general."

I IV Xew Plymouth Jlrancli of the I'-iiginedrivers, Firemen 11 ml Cleaners Association passed the following resolution at its monthly meeting held last evening: J That this branch of the KF.C. Association strongly supports the ell'orls at present being put forward bv its wand Council, and trust* that" the elanse ill tlio Arbitration Act will be ■deleted, thereby giving justice to the petitioners." '