TRADES OONGRESS.
RADICAL PROPOSALS. PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT London, Sept. 8. The Trade? Congres3 at Liverpool demanded a minimum wage of thirty shillings for forty-eight hours a week for Government employees in London district; also unanimously resolved to urge Parliament to nationalise the railroads, canals, mines, and minerals, and to ask Sir H. O. Bannerman to introduce legislation exempting workmen’s goods from seizure for rent up to the value of jE2O. Received 5.5 p.m., Sept. 9. London, Sept. 9.
The Trades Congress instructed a Parliamentary committee to secure legislation abolishing systematic overtime, and empowering public administrative bodies to issue tbeir own credit notes, thus obtaining cheaper money. It was resolved that it was desirable £or munioipa'itie3 to be empowered to conduct any work or business ; that no Workmen’s Compensation Ast was satisfactory unless workmen were allowed compound by a lump sum like employers ; also a system of compulsory State insurance was a necessary corollary to the Compensation Acts. It was resolved that all legislative proposals applying to workmen shall include shop assistants, warehousemen, and clerks. It was decided to have an organisation of agricultural laborers.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1856, 10 September 1906, Page 2
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184TRADES OONGRESS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1856, 10 September 1906, Page 2
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