LABOR'S UNITY SCHEME
THE WORKERS TO BECOME "TOP DOGS." By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Yesterday. The Waterside Workers' Union conference devoted yesterday and this morning to hearing the special pleaders in advocacy of the unity scheme. Mr. Webb, president'of the Federation of Labor, declared that during the fifteen years that the Miners' Federation had experienced the Arbitration Act the miners had lost more than they had gained. He urged that by joining the Federation of Labor the workers would become "top dogs," and stated that since breaking awaY from the Act the miners had wrested more concessions from the employers than ever before. ADDRESS BY PROFESSOR MILLS. Auckland, August 28. Professor Mills spoke on the unification of labor. He said if they could eliminate strikes and win what they wanted by negotiations, they would achieve a great thing; but this cauld only be attained by the solidarity of Labor, by the Dominion's organisation of ' its 170,000 workers.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 58, 30 August 1911, Page 5
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156LABOR'S UNITY SCHEME Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 58, 30 August 1911, Page 5
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