TRADE UNION CONGRESS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 100, 1 September 1913, Page 6

TRADE UNION CONGRESS.

WIDE REPRESENTATION

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(Received 9.50 a.m.) London, August 31. The Trade Union Congress opens at Manchester on Monday, when Mr W. J, Davies will preside. When the Congress met at Manchester in 1882, the membership was half a million;.now it is two and a quarter millions. The delegates include representatives from the United States, and now, for the first time, from Germany, France and Canada. t -The purposes of the Congress include the, securing of interchange of information regarding wages, hours, and condition, of work, with a view to ultimate conjoint action. Home and , international questions of common interest ..will be discussed. The Concress will debate the Parliamentary . t'f Vj'v. -i I *■. > ../■ 1 _ , • resolution, condemning, compulsory service anld expressing astonishment at the manner in which alleged patriots have learned the art .of killing, while servants of the Oro^p^a.^,,pl|owed, to, sell . such knowledge as shareholders and directors of companies dealing in foreign countries while receiving pensions or allowancaa frdxn the British Government, - ■' ■ i;