WORK AND WAGES

Evening Star, Issue 12603, 7 September 1905, Page 6

WORK AND WAGES

TRADES .AND LABOR CONFERENCE. WHAT LABOR MOST DO. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September A 'J'hc Durham miners and the Amalgamated Engineers’ Society are represented at the Hanley Conference, after eight years’ absence. AD James Sexton, who presided, stated that the unemployed were a source of danger, enabling employers to point to the over-abundance of labor as an excuse for cutting wages, and to recruit blacklegs in times of dispute. Preetrade, he said, had failed to settle, or even touch, the unemployed problem. No Preetrade, in the truest sense of the word, existed without freedom of produce, not for the benefit of tho few, but for the benefit of all mankind. That could not be said of tho present Preetrade, It was not enough for the Freetraders to declaim against Protection on Mr Balfour’s preferential policy. Labor should demand much more than a policy which was negative or anti-government, and which so far was all that was offered by those who were anxious to secure power. Labor must bold aloof from all parties except those assisting to promote sound and progressive legislation. NOT EDUCATED CP TO ARBITRATION. IJJNDON, .September 6. 'Received September 7, at 8.28 a,m.)

Tho Congress at Hanley negatived the principle of compulsory arbitration. Delegates representing 673,000 votes were in favor, and those representing 765,000 votes were against it.