TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 109, 24 September 1912, Page 7

TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL

MONTHLY MEETING. The monthly meeting of the New Plymouth Trades and Labor Council was • held last week, there being within throe \ of a i'ull attendance of members. Those I present, by standing reverently, silently! concurred in a resolution conveying to { the relatives and the Wellington Trades ' Council, this Council's deepest sympathy > in the great loss sustained by the death j of the late Mr. Frederick Hurling. s The Hon. Mr. Massey wrote,' noting , the Council's protects against any cur- j tailment of choice of assessors in"trade } disputes, and Ihe Council's protests 1 against alienation of Crown lands to privately owned Oil Companies. Replies of a satisfactory nature were also received from the Hon. Tlios. Kelly and Hon. Oliver Samuel, Mr. H. J. H. Okey,< M.P., wrote offering to meet a deputation from the Council on these matters. Correspondence was read from the National Organiser of the United Labor Party rega.rding collecting special con- * tributiuns to fluids, and as a result Mr. j ii. Kalchert has been appointed "a spec- j ial worker." ■ , Mr. W. J. Girling was unanimously elected General Secretary vice Mr. G. E. Roper, who has resigned, having received a clerical appointment with a local company. | A very lengthy discussion ensued on ,> the question of the desirability of forming a Co-operative Society, and as a result a special committee was set up to draft a comprehensive scheme to give effect to this, and to report to a special meeting to be held at an early date. More than ordinary interest is being taken in the approaching visits of.Messrs W. Slaughter and Thompson (assessors from the Plumbers' Union) at a Council of Conciliation to be held on the 2fith instant, and also to the arrival of Mr. J. A. McCulloeh and Mr. Bob Whiting, who are coming to attend a sitting of the Arbitration Court on October 3rd, when the carpenters and general laborers' disputes come up for adjustment, s