BATH LABOR CONGRESS.
ABOLITION OF HOUSE OF LORDS CALLED FOR. NO MORE NEW PEERAGES WANTED. Jnited Press Association—Copyright Received September 6, 9.58 p.m. LONDON, September 6. The Bath Congress unanimously adopted a resolution strongly urging the Government to take steps to secure the abolition of the House of Lords;’ also protesting against the creation of new Peerages. SALVATION ARMY ATTACKED. ALLEGED SWEATING SYSTEM. Received September G, 9.55 p.m. LONDON, September 6. Other resolutions adopted demanded an enquiry into the alleged Salvation Army sweating; condemning conscription or compulsory military training; instructing the Parliamentaiy; committee to secure better wages in the Government dockyards ;re-affirm-ing the Congress’s previous decision in favor of a minimum wage of 30s jier week. Mr. O’Grady, M.P., declared the joiners worked in the Salvation Army workshops at Spitalfields five hundred per cent, below the trade union rate.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2179, 7 September 1907, Page 2
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