TRADES CONFERENCE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 280, 19 April 1911, Page 5

TRADES CONFERENCE

SHORTER HOURS WANTED. By Telegraph.—Press Asnociation. Christchureh, Tuesday. The Trades Conference this morning agreed that trades unions be empowered to investigate alleged eases of breaches of the Factories Act and to take the eases to court, and carried a motion urging the Government to introduce legislation making the use of the "made in New Zealand'' brand compulsory. There was a long discussion on a motion to reduce the hours per week under tin* Factories Act to 44. An amendment in favor of 40 hours was rejected, and the original motion carried. SOME REMITS. Christchureh, Last Night. Amongst the principal remits agreed to by the Trades and Labor Conference tliis afternoon were those urging the Government to introduce a Minimum Wage Bill, providing for Is 3d per hour; that the Workers' Compensation Act be added to to provide for country workers un ambulance chest, and also for payment in full from date of accident; that the Shipping and Seamen's Act be amended to provide for service of a writ on the master of a vessel not registered in New Zealand; that the Government appoint inspectors of ships' gear; that the law be amended to compel work to cease on wharves between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. Mr. Webb, chairman of the Miners' Federation, and Mr. T. E. Taylor, M.P., were welcomed by the conference.