LABOUR MATTERS.
GERMAN UNIONISTS. CONCRESS AT HAMBURC. ATTITUDE OF THE GOVERNMENT, BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTBIOnif (Rec. June 23, 10.15 p.m.) Berlin, June 23. Herr Carl Legien, a Socialist member of the Reichstag, addressing the German Trade Unions Congress at Hamburg, claimed that free unionists now. totalled nearly two millions, their membors constituting tho largest and most united organisation in tlio world, despite the continual opposition of tho ruling classes and the Government.
Herr Legien complained that the now As-' sociations Law showed that the Government was still bent on opposing tho Labour movement. NEW SOUTH WALES ACT AND THE WORKERS. . Sydney, June 23. The decision of a number of unions not to accept the Labour Council's recommendation to ignore the. Industrial Disputes Act i 3 threatening-.a serious split in thfc Labour camp. .
The Berlin correspondent of "The Times" states that the Radicals in the Reichstag explain their acceptance of the new Associations Law by declaring that, in spite of its langnago restrictions (restricting tho use of any but the German tongue at publio meetings), it gives new rights of public meeting. (The Radicals, unlike the Socialists, support Princo Bulow.)
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 232, 24 June 1908, Page 7
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188LABOUR MATTERS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 232, 24 June 1908, Page 7
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