EMPLOYERS MEET.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 196, 16 February 1912, Page 5

EMPLOYERS MEET.

AND LABOR RAIDS MEETING,

"I WILL DEAL WITH YOU!"

By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. A conference of all the employers of general labor, representatives of suburban bodies, quarry owners and eleven members of the City Council was held to-night to consider whether representatives of the General Laborers' Union should be met on an equal footing to consider the proposed increase in wages, and the improvement in working conditions in certain classes of labor.

After a discussion lasting two hours, it was resolved that while the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act is the law of the land, the conference would decline to make agreements outside the Act, and confirms its previous resolutions.

After other resolutions had been carried, members of the Laborers' Union, who had been waiting without, burst into the room despite the remonstrances of the city engineer, and used, it is said, violent and insulting language towards the conference. A;ion<r the invading force were Messrs. W. Parry, vice-presi-dent of the Federation of Labor, Fraser, president of the local Laborers' Union, Adams, secretary, and Mason, vice-preui-dent of the same body. The Mayor informed the men they had no right there, and they 'only left after a messenger had been instructed to ring up the police.

The Mayor states that subsequently, in his room, Mr. Parry said to him: "I will deal with you later." He then left.