WORK AND WAGES.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 June 1918, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES.

j By^Jelt^ra^lu-TRBea^4sßolsSJS6®vi v Among. H worifie»* conference ■ eonfereac* affirms tha prmciplo<£StSHs control of the liquor indnsfciy; ttefcjibfi l Government 4e requested, to-asfflan&*<SJ![Kj trol of the wihite pine indnslsy; QftSJ experiments be made wiSi a -rasw $8 finding & suitaMe .eulistMta far wh3&;; pine for batter, boxes; ttat fha- Gwerii-. meat exraeiM supervision over aSEcgj white pine, to prevent the waste toi-.j smaller timber-which w now takingj place ;that Iwtterboxeß-and.'Cheege.-aaidJ glaxo crates foe that QnS conference deplored the failure of tie* Government to taiko adeqnaieetalpß reduce the cost of living; that this Atfoi ' (ration Court ta abolished and thenCkumrrl cil'a Conxatiation Commissioner 1m given';; power to make their decisions into: awards, and Ibe-vested-witifcuaJl the powers now conferred upon the Arbitration Court; that before an award is made; the prices of goods be Ascertained and 1 the cost of services rendered <by commercial enterprises by a board of experts, appointed for that purpose, the latter! to act in conjunction with and under : the direction of the" councdPs conciliations. When an award is made prices shall also -bs. regulated in a similar man-' tier and' for'the samo jaeriod aswages.