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CLOSING RESOLUTIONS; MR RAMSAY McDONALD. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, February 5. The Leicester Labour Conference has closed. A motion in favour of proportional representation was negatived. It was resolved that the Board of Trade should allow Trade Unions to hold their ordinary meetings in the Labour Exchange buildings. A resolution was passed, recommending that the State should pay compensation to workmen in the case of accidents by means of charges upon the industries concerned, without the workers being called upon to contribute. The Conference also demanded a minimum wage and forty-eight hours weekly in connection with Government factories and contracts. The Daily Express, conmenting on the Conference, describes Mr Ramsay McDonald as the strong man of the Labour Party. It remarks upon his contempt for futurity or for other leoders, and his consummate skill in controlling without seeming to rule. His marked supremacy, in the opinion of the Express, marks for him a distinguished future.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10157, 6 February 1911, Page 5
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165LABOUR CONGRESS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10157, 6 February 1911, Page 5
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