MINERS' CONGRESS.
:'\ • MINIMUM WAGE. \. : . ' •■'" "MUST SIGN .THE LABOUR TICKET." (By Telcgraph-Pres3 :■ Association-Copyright!) . ■-.'. (Eeo. October 10, 5.5.p.m.) .■: . :>V^V ; -" ■■/. ' : London, October 9. ■ ■Tie Miners' Federation Conference at Newcastle.unanimously favoured a uniform minimum, wage.of $s. a day throughout the federation area.. -, ;; . . ■ ";. : '-. ~■ .„.. ; . 1 i : Aacr. a .debate , with clbsed doors, the-' Coh£eronce decided that Mr. T. Biirt and Mr.' <1 :Fenv,-ick, members.of the.House of CommW must Blgn the.Labour ticket or lose the mines' supiVort\, i. ■•'■ '■- ■..-... ".'■■- ■■■ ; ■• ..*..; , ...The'Et.. Hon. Thos; Buft : and Mr. C Fenwick are. both Northuraberland.bat»; and both ■W/'.ini early. a K e' as working miners' Mr bI"" 0M offorts raised teeSS Wi' toti'-t? J, epre ? e J!¥' Morpeth.cvor since J874, aud Mr.- Fenwick has represented Wrins »'• ■ bot fc,:»f- he old school, of Xabour HP? and probably, hot sufficiently advanced for the new Socialistic school. A • Unionist critic obfW^V-^ 11110,1 " 11 ,- , ; 6 ,vou,d i» f -"be,styled by HriH- W ; nS member, the -Bight Hon. Ihomas ,-Burt has' probably rendered mote. service, to; the cause of his-fellofr-workers tlian mnety-mno out of, a hundred of those who- discourse ■so glibly on the dignity ,-' of Labour.- ' - ■' - : .'■ ■ ■- - -. ' ,■ ■■ ' v
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 634, 11 October 1909, Page 7
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180MINERS' CONGRESS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 634, 11 October 1909, Page 7
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