TRADES AND LABOUR COUNCIL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2495, 7 May 1909, Page 5

TRADES AND LABOUR COUNCIL.

REMITS FOR CONFERENCE

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"" DUNEDIN, May 6. At a meeting- of the Otago Trades and Labor Council to-night, the following remits were adopted for presentation to the annual conference in 'Wellington :—That the conference affirms tha need for the statutory limitation of working hours to forty-four per week as a maximum, eight hours on five days of the week and four hours on the day 'on the recognised half-holiday; that all <mods manufactured in New Zealand should be branded made in New Zealand and also boar the manufacturers name-: that Government be urged to. establish State farms and flour mills for the purpose"of supplying the people of the Dominion with the staff, ot life at-a reasonable cost ; that in the opinion of .this conference i.he time-has arrived when the-State should subsidise trades unions or other organisations which insure members against- unemployment.; that the conference affirms, the betterment, principle in connection With railway construction., with the object of putting it on a more scientific and equitable, basis in the hope that it will act-'as a curb on political influence ; that tile Government be urged to introduce more stringent legislation to prohibit the publication of indecent htoiuture. .