NATIONAL REPRESENTATION.
A CHANGE IN THE SYSTEM. (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, August 3. The "Daily News" Amsterdam correspondent reports that the International Trade Union Congress agreed that every 250,000 members entitled a country to a vote. Hitherto the small countries have had the same voting power as Britain and the United States. The new system was only adopted after the British- and American delegates threatened to withdraw. The alteration was due to a proposal that the countries contribute a halfpenny per trade unionist annually to the Congress fuads. This would amount to £10,000 from Britain and £8000 from America. — (A. and N-Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 183, 4 August 1919, Page 5
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