TRADE UNION CONGRESS.
LABOR M.'sP. CENSURED. SALVATION ARMY METHODS CONDEMJJKD. Received 10, 0.30 a.m. Loudon, Sopteiuor 9. The Trades Union Congress at Nottingham censured .Messrs John Burns, 1'". Maddison and Henry Vivian, Labor mem) beia of Die llouse of Commons, for opposing tiie Right to Work Bill. Several delegates denounced the Salvationist method of alleged under-pay-
ing and sweating in the joinery department of the rescue work, the competition injuring private firms and weakeniug the position of trade unionism. The resolution was not pressed, as negotia-' tions with General Booth are proceeding. Received 10, 0.40 ajn. ( London, September 0. < At the Nottingham Congress a social- , istic resolution that the Congress amalgamate with the Labor Party and Gen- j eral Federation of Trade Unions was overwhelmingly negatived. It was afterwards resolved that no member u£ , the management committee of the Getii eral Federation Executive Committee of the Labor Party be eligible on the Par- ; liamentary connnitte of the Trade Uni ; on Congress.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 220, 10 September 1908, Page 2
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161TRADE UNION CONGRESS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 220, 10 September 1908, Page 2
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