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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 68
Monday, June 10
Monday, June 10.
The Conference resumed its sittings at 7.30 p.m. The President of the League (Mr. D. Bellhouse) took the chair, and all the Delegates were present, also the Secretary Mr. J. W. Walker.
A deputation from the Bootmakers' Union waited upon the Conference, and explained the cause of the present trouble, which is a threatened lock-out by Messrs. Toomer Brothers.
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The Conference expressed its sympathy with the workmen, and passed the following resolution:—
- "That this Conference deeply regrets that Messrs. Toomer Brothers have assumed such a dictatorial attitude towards their employees as to threaten them with a lock-out unless they agree to their harsh terms, and should the threat be persisted in it will be the duty of this Conference to afford all the moral and material assistance in its power."
The Conference then commenced to go through the Customs Tariff for the purpose of making amendments, and after doing some good work adjourned until Wednesday, 12th inst.