THE BRITISH TRADES CONGRESS.
[ SPECIAL TO UNITED PRESS AS6OCIATION.I London, 9th September. The eight hours question has been further discussed by the British Trades Congress, now sitting at Swansea, and adoption of this system has been favoured on the ground that it will provide work for 700,000 of the unemployed. Mr. David Macfie has been appointed colonial manager of the Landowners' Alliance Bank. A syndicate has agreed to purchase Messrs. "Wallace & Co.'s Beeohworth mines, and the colonial directors will comprise Messrs. "Wallace, Phipps, Turnbull, and W. K. Thomson.
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Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 63, 12 September 1887, Page 2
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88THE BRITISH TRADES CONGRESS. Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 63, 12 September 1887, Page 2
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