LABOUR CONFERENCE
TREATMENT OF UNEMPLOYED. f OLD ACE PENSIONS. DELEGATES FROM. OVER A MILLION UNIONISTS. BY TELEGRAPH- —FIIKSS ASSOCIATION—COPYBICIIT. , (Rec. Jan. 21, 10.2 p.m.) l.oncion, January 21. The oighth nnrrnal conforcnco of tho Labour party, at Hull, was attended by 400 delegates, reprosonting 1,072,413 Unionists. Mr. W. Hudson, Labour member of tho Houso of Commons for Newcnstle-on-Tyno, and Irish . Secretary of . tlio . Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, presided. Ho briefly reviewed the social legislation of last year, and insisted that old-ago pensions and tho treatment of the unemployed wore questions that specially required attention. Ho claimed that the outcry against .Socialism was really educating the' Trade Unionists to regard it-favourably. The conferenco resolved to appoint a party election agents Tho admission to tho conferenco of the Women's Labour League was sanctioned. •
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 101, 22 January 1908, Page 7
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131LABOUR CONFERENCE Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 101, 22 January 1908, Page 7
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