LABOUR-LIBERALISM.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 609, 11 September 1909, Page 5

LABOUR-LIBERALISM.

KEIR HARDIE'S VIEW. GOVERNMENT'S GREAT CONCESSION, WORK OR MAINTENANCE. (By Telegraph.-Prcsa Aaaoclatlon.-OocyrlEht.) London, Soptember 9. Mr. Keir Hardie, M.P. for Mertliyr Tydvil, and formerly chairman of tlio Labour party in tho House, addressing the Trado Union Congress at Ipswich, said the Labour party had put the right to work, or alternatively the right to maintenance, in tho forefront of their demands. Now thero was a promise that both clainu would bo admitted. V

State insurance against ( Unemployment, said Mr. Hardie, would bo tho equivalent of maintenance *, and tho Development Bill, which was the most revolutionary measure over introduced into Parliament', would, provide work, i ■ '

The Government bad also promised insurance against sickness, and, altogether, concluded the speaker, they wore on the eve of great developments.

UNEMPLOYMENT AND EXCHANGES.

AGAINST GRANTS TO UNIONS,

(Rec. September 10. 10.40 p.m.)

London, September 10!

Tlip Trade Union Congress, by the narrow margin of 3000 votes (715,000 against 712.000), rejected its : Pnrliaraantary Com : mitteo's proposal that the State should make grants to trade unions for th'o benefit of their unemployed members.

A similar resolution was passed at : the last Congress, but this year the miners' delegates, representing half a million,, opposed it on the around that it would aggravate unemployment. >: •

Resolutions wero carried in favour of the reduction of the.old age pensioned from 70 to fiO, and in favour of Labour Day celebrations; in Britain. :. I: '

It was resolved that- the labour exchanges •which tho 1 Government proposed to create should not be used to assist farmers having disputes with their work-people.. :