LABOR CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 1, 13 July 1914, Page 2

LABOR CONFERENCE.

REGULATION OF WOULD-BE STRIKERS. WHAT UNIONS MAY NOT DO. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, July 11. At the afternoon sitting of the Labor Conference, the remainder of the constitution was considered. The following clauses were adopted:— Trade or industria lunions shall have complete self-government, but under no circumstances shall they have the power to take any such steps involving any other organisation in the Federation. No one shall'strike without first placing the matter unreservedly in the hands of the Council. No council shall involve the national organisation in any strike without first placing the matter unreservedly in the hands of the national executive, Any union or council district violating the provisions herein contained, shall not receive the support of the United Federation, and shall be immediately suspended. Any district, council or union,

so suspended shall have the right of appeal to the animal conference, which body shall decide the penalty to be ini dieted, the decision of the council to be final. Notwithstanding anything contained in this, clause, any union will have the right in the event of human life being endangered, to take such action as its members may deem necessary after the dispute ha 3 been dealt with by the National executive and no settlement arrived at. Any union called upon to cease work in support of a strike, shall, if it so desires, have the right to first take a ballot on the question. Financial district councils shall pay an annual affiliation fee of £li.for each affiliated union to the central executive, together with not less than threepence per member per year capitation fee. Trade, or industrial unions shall pay an affiliation fee of £2 per year, together with not less than Is per per member per year capitation fee to the district council. In cases where a union's membership consists of both male workers, the union shall be liable for half the above capitation in respect to such feiri'alc workers. An open congress of all bona fide trade and indus- | trial unions in New Zealand affiliated , or non-affiliated, shall be held annually, to be convened by the United Federation of Labor. Executive representation at the Open Congress and the annual con- i ference shall be as follows: For unions J of fifty members or less, one delegate; | fifty to a hundred, two delegates; 100 and upwards, three delegates. Voting jOn all question shall be on the basis of f one delegate, one vote. The National Executive shall call the Open Congress | during the month of July in each year.

The officers of district councils shall be elected annually, and shall he as follows: President, vice-president, secretary, treasurer and members of the executive (five), who shall be elected by and from the affiliated bodies, five to form a quorum. It was resolved that the following salaries be paid per annum: President, £ls; secretary and treasurer, ,€SO. It was decided that nominations for the positions of officers be called during the month of November, 1914, and that the election take place as soon as possible thereafter by plebiscite, officers to assume their duties at the end of six months. Provisional officers were then elected as follows: President, I). G. Sutherland (Canterbury); vice-president, A. Rosier (Auckland); secretary and treasurer, Mark Fagan (Inangah'ua miners); committee, Wesley 'Richards (Auckland): W. E. Parry (Palmerston N.i, M. Laracy (Wellington), ,T. Alsweiler (Southland), W. McAllen (Otagol, P. Eel lis (Canterbury), ,T. Townsend (Marlbor ough), D. "Colder (Hawke's Bay and Poverty Bay), 11. Coppersmith -(West Coast.