TRADES AND LABOR CONGRESS.
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heated discussion, in the dofeat of the Socialist programme by 263 to 93, upon an amendment to compel working class candidates for Parliament to pledge themselves to support the nationalisation of land. Burns severely attacked the present labor members of Parliament.
Tho Gas-workers' Union have forwarded £1000 ; tho sailors and firemen havo voted £1000; tho stick-makers propose a weekly sixpenny levy, and the engineers a shilling levy, amounting to £3000 a week to the Australian strike fund
The London Standard says the working men no longer rely upon breaking down in detail the employers of Britain, but by the collective resources of two hemispheres.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5927, 4 September 1890, Page 3
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161TRADES AND LABOR CONGRESS. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5927, 4 September 1890, Page 3
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