LABOUR AND BUDGET
UNIONS CONGRESS. THE PRESIDENT'S APPROVAL. "GREATEST FINANCIAL REFORM OF MODERN TIMES." (By Tclcßtapb-I'rcßa association-CoDyrlctat I (Rcc Soptombcr 7, 10 30 p.m.) London, September 7. Tho Trades' Union Coiigross was opened .at Ipswich to-day. There nero present 495 delegates, representing 1,701,000 'unionists. Mr. Shackloton, M.P., presided. Ho declared that tho Budget proposals, if earned, would bo tho greatest, financial reform- of modern times. The care for tho aged, tho feeding of necessitous children, and tho»i\vmaner treatment of the unemployed wouh)™ B i'(to an ever-increasing demand on tho juttWiJ'lurso. Tho Budget afforded an finding the money without tho people. ' , * SILENCE OF JOHN BURNS. » THE EX-LABOttt LEADER AND LORD LOREBURN.' • - / , BELIEVED TO BE AGAINST LAND. •TAXES. London, September 6. Tho silenco of Mr. John Burns, President of the Local Government Board, in tho Budget controversy is ascribed to tho belief that ho and the Lord Chancellor (Lord Loreburn) opposed the taxation of land values in tho initiatory Cabinet discussions. '
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 606, 8 September 1909, Page 7
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