DRIVERS' CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 273, 10 April 1913, Page 5

DRIVERS' CONFERENCE.

OPENING! DAYTP : infssES&*! •» By Telegraph—Press' Association. • Christchureh, Last Night. The fourth annual - Conference of >thp New Zealand Federation of DriversHJi-"' ions' Industrial Association of Workers opened at the Trades Jlall to-day. The following delegates were in attendance: —Auckland. Messrs. G. Davis, C. Weaver and J .PurtelJ; Napier, Messrs. C. MeKenzie and G. A. Raveii; "Mastclton, Mr. E. Flanagan; Wanganui, Mr. DS J. Condue; Wellington, Messrs. A. Patlane, J, Rogers and A. Moore; Christchureh,. Messrs. T. Green and 11, Iluntsr; tTimaru, Mr. R. Dey; Dunedin, Messrs. W. Yorkston and S. Anderson. Mr.. George Davis . was elected chairman of the Conference, i and Mr. H. Hunter conference secretary. The report of the executive committee and also the annual balance-sheet -were adopted. A motion that the Federation record its' appreciation of the services rendered to the labor movement by £h«Kf late Mr. T. G. Love, of the Wanganui™ Drivers' Union, and a letter expressing sympathy with the Union and .his relaf lives he forwarded to them"oyitJie see} rotary, was carried, membergl.standing. Consideration of remits wi* -then pr#. ' cfieded with. Remit :1-. "That steps be taken to have'4he SHops and Offices Act, 1908, and its amendnieflfc Of 1910 the irfeJetioa % ttf section 50, -which provides that sJioS assistants who also shafi put in one hour per day, if requir,ej, it necessary attendance upon kfSfses,!! was adopted on the motion, of Messrs .<& Davis and C .Weaver. It was reaolveji .- on the motion of Messrs. C. Mckenzie and G. A. Raven (Napier)\—"That tile Federation embody Harming onTtJle various clauses in the iri a- pamphlet and supply each driver Sir the Federation with a copy for bis guidance.? Remit 1 (Dunedin): "Tlfat the Federal; ,'tion ÜBe its influence to get the awarj amended in the direction of. eonipelljafc, employers to have their' wages'\ beo£s„. signed by their employees," was adopted on, the motion of Messrs. Sanderson* and A- Moore.' It was resolved on, the motion of Messrs .A. Parlane and J. Rogers: "That,unions affiliated desutoig and interpretation of e$Y award by submit tlte.'sUme to'the 'executfveTw the Federation.''and »fhe raeftftitfp gftia then obtain opinions* JErqiHs ftther unioipM, If the. majority are in" fa cntive will then ajroly a«iT> obtain kgaTTassTsttinceMiv' .ca«o< -for an interpretatiotoV Remit -y (Auckland): "TTiSt|the a universal >et ; £fmk;s/for of .affiliated adnjvfwl ontmy motion of Messrs -C. iweawNwd _JI Purtell. ■,,■-",» " l ' l 7-^\ The Council Vequestea tlie""LW«»reneo to consider the question of the alleged illtreatment,/of youths on the t«injng sliip k Aiiok\ira. Hf hOl£uTlinsßrsM' mm accordingly suspended aud the following ''DiWers*'PedMlflfn'retfrftfie tftWn- . •nwnt and'piiblieJ ehcfuif?'' intoi.<haoott>£feil sita^tfocnJPHrfv.voufliH