LABOR CONFERENCE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 90, 25 July 1910, Page 5

LABOR CONFERENCE

SATURDAY'S SITTING. VARIOUS RESOLUTIONS. By Telegraph. —Press Association. Auckland Saturday. The conference unanimously adopted the following recommendations by a special committee appointed to consider the best scheme for getting cow- > pulsory preference: — | That the conference ask that the Conciliation and Arbitration Act be amended to enable unions to strike off the ! books any member three months in ■! arrears; that preference he granted to financial members of the unions; that unions be asked to amend their rules accordingly; to ask that the Act ue amended so as to provide that awards of the Court apply to all employers in I any one industry without making it ' compulsory to cite every individual emj ployer before the Court. It was resolved to ask the Government to carry out public works by day labor instead'of on the co-operative system, which was described as inequitable. A protest was made against the Government assisting domestics into the Dominion. It was agreed that the Otago Council be the executive for next year. i The next conference will be field at Christchurch. The following resolutions were also passed:— That the Government be urged to bring in a Bill to make the Legislative Council elective. j That the conference support the ndopI tion of a union badge as a means of ] forcing preference to unionists.