UNIONISM AND CAPITAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 11 October 1907, Page 3

UNIONISM AND CAPITAL.

THE THREATENED RAILWAY STRIKE. Loudon. ,Oclober 1). The Minora* Federation at Wouthport adopted a resolution of sympathy _ with the Amalgamated Society of Railway jservants. .Mr Enoch Edwards, MP. for Hanley, who presided, declared that tile employees had learned the lesson of combination. They had n<;t_ ruined capita!. The Federation had no quarrel with I capital, but only objected to its being in the hands of too few. He added tint workmen must have some s.iy regarding what was to be their share of the product of labor. It was too late in tli" day to attempt to burke the matter l>y refusing to meet the men. WORKING MIXERS' PIIOI'OSALS. RAILWAY SERVANTS' DEMANDS. INTERNATIONA 1. QUIPPING FEDEIIAri'K INS' CONFERENCE. Received Oct. 10th, i 0.4!) p.m. London, October 10, | The A!intra' Federation unanimously I recommended a Bill providing for tlie nationalisation of mines, and also unanimously favored the alioli;i:,n of the House of Lords. A conference of the Amalag-i mated Society of Railway Servants at Middlcsboro' unanimously supported the demand for the recognition of the Society by railway companies. Delegations of the shipping federations at Antwerp, Amsterdam. Rotter- ! dam, Hamburg, Copenhagen. Gothenburg and other plices meet the British Ship- , ping Federation at London on Tuesday to concert measures for 'defence against . unionism. j