TRADES UNION CONGRESS.
VARIOUS 'PROPOSALS. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright Received 9.10 a.m., Sept. 14. London, Sept. 11. At the Trades Union Congress, Mr Ben Tillett said he considered the day had passed for strikes as an instrument of industrial warfare. He proposed compulsory arbitration courts under tjie presidency of the Lord Justice. The Congress overwhelmingly rejected the proposal, but agreed to seek an amendment of the Conciliation Act to provide a court authorised to compulsorily call evidence where a strike or lock-ont lasted a month. It condemned the massacre in Macedonia, and urged the Government to prevent Turkish outrages; condemned the Education Act and supported a purely secular education, with popular control of all State-aided schools, religious instruction out of school hours at denominations’ expense, and abolition of all school fees ; favored international arbitration, extension of the Labor Department, appointment of a Labor Minister ; advocated a universal system of pensions at the age of 60 of at least five shillings weekly out of Imperial funds.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 994, 14 September 1903, Page 4
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