TRADES CONGRESS.
■ Press Association.—Copyright. London, September 4, .Five hundred and twenty-one delegates, representing 1,700,000, are attending tho fortieth annual Trades Union Congress at Bath. Thirty-six labour members of tho Commons arc present. Tho Parliamentary Committee’s report recommends members to support miners’ legal eight hours, reduction of the hours of all trades, old-ago pensions, legislation dealing with the unemployed problem, compulsory State insurance, laud nationalisation, amendment of tho property laws, legal restriction, and systematic overtime. Mr F. H. Gill, a member of tiro House of Commons, prosidirg Jat the Trades Union Congress jut Bate, advanced old-ago pensions as tho -first plank in the programme, tho pension to bo universal, ncu-contribntory, and non-discriminating. He declared that it was thoSiChancellor’s duty to find the money |from sources which could bo legitimately tapped.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8912, 4 September 1907, Page 2
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129TRADES CONGRESS. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8912, 4 September 1907, Page 2
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