CARPENTERS AND JOINERS.
CONFERENCE CONCLUDED. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, August 7. The Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Conference of New Zealand has concluded. The conference considered remits to be sent Home to the general conference at Manchester in 19lS; also recommendations for enlarging the powers of the New Zealand district office and administration of local rules. A model award which will form the basis of all further negotiations with the Master Builders’ Association, was decided on. The conference instructed the New Zealand executive to place before the Government the request that provision be made in the proposed legislation for a subsidy to those trade unions which grant sick and unemployed benefit. The matter of importing American-manufactured joinery was also discussed, and tlie Government will be asked to take action to stop it.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2575, 9 August 1909, Page 4
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130CARPENTERS AND JOINERS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2575, 9 August 1909, Page 4
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