Attack on Salvation Army.
§ London, September 6.» “Other 1 resolutions adopted demanded enquiry into alleged Salvation Army sweating ; condemned conscription or compulsory military training; instructed the Parliamentary committee to secure better wages in Government dockyards, and reaffirmed the previous decision of Congress in favour of a minimum wage of 30s per week. Mr O’Grady, M.P., declared that joiners worked in the Salvation Army workshops at Spitalfields five hundred per cent, below the Trade Union rate.
[Mr O’Grady probably wished to say in a picturesque way that the wages were onefifth of the Union rate. The statement as it stands is meaningless..
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8915, 7 September 1907, Page 2
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101Attack on Salvation Army. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8915, 7 September 1907, Page 2
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