TRADES CONFERENCE.
CHRISTCHURCH, ApriJ 18. , The New Zealand Trades and Labour Conference adopted motions to urge the establishment of a State labour bureau and public defenders; to urge the Government to prevent the importation of volunteer uniforms; to remove all civil and political disabilities from civil servants; to nationalise marine, coastal and intercolonial service and the Wanganui river service. The Conference debated at considerable length the administration of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration \Act, and adopted motions asking the Government to so amend the Act as to afford protection to workers who may be engaged in forming a union, and as to provide for unconditional preference of employment to unionists, and that ail decisions of. the Court should be given within three months of the filing of a case. A motion was also adopted that when the Conciliation Board's recommendation is accepted by all parties, to a dispute, such recommendation should have the force of an award of the Court. 16 was decided to urge the Government to establish State clothing and boot factories, flour " and woollen mills, bakeries, iron work and ahipbulding yards.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8122, 19 April 1906, Page 5
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184TRADES CONFERENCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8122, 19 April 1906, Page 5
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