LABOUR GROUPS.
■ l A REFUSAL TO TAKE PARTY PLEDGE. BY TWO MINERS' MEMBERS. REGRET IN NORTHERN DISTRICTS. ■ Tclesrapli.-I'roaa Aaioctatlon.-Ooorrlctill (Bee. September 16, 10.15 p.m.) >, ■ ' London, September 16. A correspondent at Sunderland refors to a rofusal to take tho National Labour party's pledge, by two members of the minors' group of Labour members of Parliament—tho Right Hon. Thos. Burt (who has been ■ moraber. for Morpotb. sinoe 1874, and President of the Miners' National Union since 1882), and Mr. Charles Femvick (who has been member for Wansbcck, Northumberland) : sinco 1 1885,. and. who,: up to thai year,' was'a working miner*. : The correspondent states that, in view of their, having been requested to take .the pledge by tho Miners' Association, regret and surprise ato expressed by trade unionists iu Labour circles in tho -North, of England .at their refusal to do so. . Some of the leading Labour mGn declarq that there is Toom in. tho' Labour party for those members who are moro sympathetic with Liberalism than With Labour, :
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 614, 17 September 1909, Page 5
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166LABOUR GROUPS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 614, 17 September 1909, Page 5
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