IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2595, 1 September 1909, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

CABLE NEWS.

LORD- ROSEBERY’S BUDGET PROTEST MEETING.

the Trade boards bill.

(Received August 31, 9.35 p.m.) LONDON, August 31.

Lord Rosebery’s Budget protest meeting is to be held at Glasgow on September 10th.

The Trade Boards Bill has been read a second tim© in the House of Lords.

THE HOUSING AND TOWN-PLAN-NING BILL.

PASSING THROUGH COMMITTEE,

The Housing and Town-planning Bill is passing through eomnjdttee in the House of Commons under the guillotine, amid numerous protests from the benches. Sir F. Banbury described the measure as conferring arbitrary far-reaching powers on Mr. John, Burns who, he said, was made a sort of Julius Caesar. Mr. John Burns replied that the Bill merely placed rural districts councils on an equality with urban councils.

PROVISIONS OF . THE TRADE BOARDS BILL.

The central principle of the Bill is the establishment of trade boards in certain trades where the evil known as “sweating” prevails ;the fixing by these wages, and the enforcement of that boards of a minimum standard of minimum wage. The trade boards, besides exercising their statutory functions. will be centres of information and organisation. The hoards will be charged with the administration of portions of the Truck Act, with the training of workers, and the collection of information on the subject of unemployment. The trades scheduled under the Bill will be the tailoring (which will include readymade, wholesale, and bespoke tailoring), cardboard-box making, lace making by machinery, not finishing, and blouse making. The Bill may be extended to other trades by an order. There will be three expert paid official members, and in all trades where women are largely employed at leiast one of these members will always be a woman. The official members of the Central Trade Board will also be members of all district trade committees, and will occupy the chair whenever they are present.