FURNITURE TRADE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 209, 2 March 1912, Page 5

FURNITURE TRADE.

VARIOUS, RESOLUTIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. After considerable discussion and the defeat of various resolutions on the question of federation, either with the Federation of Labor or the Mills Unity Scheme of Federation, the delegates at the furniture trade conference passed the following resolution, "That' the federation shall enter into no agreements with employers for more than two years." It was also resolved to recommend an alteration in the Workers' Compensation Act, so as to make insurance of workers compulsory; to prevent insurance companies compromising in cases of accidents; that the Government be requested to bring in a clause to define when a worker is deemed to be dismissed; that when the Labor Department refused to take action in breaches of awards, and the union took the matter up and was successful in court, it should be reimbursed in all expenses; that unions be recommended to include in their membership such branches of trade as are not already that a duty be placed on foreign goods manufactured by sweated labor, so as to prevent competition with locally-made articles; that Wellington provide the executive for the ensuing year. The next conference will be held in Christchurch.