EMPLOYERS' FEDERATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 171, 28 October 1910, Page 8

EMPLOYERS' FEDERATION.

YESTERDAY'S BUSINESS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The annual conference of delegates to the New Zealand Employers' Federation was concluded to-day. The conference passed the following resolutions:— "This Federation strongly protests against the rulings of Mr. W. R, Haselden, S.M., in several cases of breach of the preference clause of awards wherein he gave decisions contrary to the rulings of the Court of Arbitration." "That this Federation considers the advisability of recommending that in connection with all industrial disputes the employers should ask the Court to insert in everv award clause 14 of the Wellington cooks' and waiters' award, dated July 15, 1910, which provides against prospective legislation." "The the Advisory Board be requested to devise a scheme bv which the farmers of the Dominion might become affiliated with the Federation; and that the various Employers' Associations endeavor to meet representatives of district Farmers' Unions to further the objects of the above." "That the law should be amended so as to enable provision to be made in each industrial district for all holidays except those at Christmas, New Year and Easter, being observed on some fixed day in the week." An honorarium of twenty-five guineas was voted to Mr. W. A. Grenfell for assistance rendered the Federation secretary during the year. The levy of affiliated societies was fixed at' the same amount as last year. The next annual meeting will be held at Wellington at a date to be fixed by the Advisory Board.