Kōrero: Employer and business organisations

Meeting the minister

Meeting the minister

Immediately on forming their national federation in 1902, employer associations’ representatives met with the minister for public works. After stating that they accepted the permanence of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, and had no ‘feeling of enmity towards the working man’, the deputation plunged into matters that would concern the Employers’ Federation for decades to come. Wages, holidays and hours were all discussed.

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National Library of New Zealand, Papers Past
Reference: Evening Post, 9 August 1902, p. 2

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Megan Cook, 'Employer and business organisations - The Employers’ Federation', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/24722/meeting-the-minister (accessed 29 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Megan Cook, i tāngia i te 11 Mar 2010