CAPITALISTS' UNION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2831, 4 September 1890, Page 2

CAPITALISTS' UNION.

(lIY ELECTRIC TKLEOKAfII. —COPYRIGHT). SvnsKV, September 2. At a meeting attended by 1 .">(JO employers and the leading business men (.his afternoon, the following resolutions were passed unanimously, with marked enthusiasm :— •'That tlio tiins has arrived'when it is absolutely necessary that till employers of labour, capitalists, and others directly or indirectly interested .should form themselves into an association for mutual defence. " Tlmt this meeting approves of the. formation of an Employer's Defence Committee of Australia, and that a committee be appointed to draft a scheme and to invite cooperation in all the colonies. "That it is desirable that employers not members of the Union at once join, and that all interested, directly or indirectly, be called upon to express sympathy in a practical manner." ,; " That as the shipowners and others connected with maritime labour are fighting the battles of all employers against aggressive unionism, it is agreed to subscribe to a fund to assist them." " That this meeting condemns the system of boycotting practised by the representatives of trade unionism, not only as against employers, but also as against union and nonunion fellow-workmen, as a violation of personal liberty, and antagonistic to the best interests of the Australian colonies/'