LABOUR CONGRESS.
SYDNEY, April 2. The Labour Congress adopted a resolution to the effect that the Industrial Disputes Act should bs amended to provide for absolute preference to unionists. The report of a committee set up to deal with a proposal to establish a Federation of Labour stated that the efforts of the Committee had been set at naught by the apathy of the unions generally. Resolutions were carried in favour of compulsory State insurance against sickness, accident old age, and infirmity, and a proposal to establish a Labour daily newspaper was also adopted.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10009, 4 April 1910, Page 5
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94LABOUR CONGRESS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10009, 4 April 1910, Page 5
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