TRADES UNION CONGRESS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 4 September 1912, Page 7

TRADES UNION CONGRESS

DISSATISFACTION WITH 'LABOR

MEMBERS

COMPULSORY

CULTIVATION OF

LAND

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(Received Sep. 4, 2 p.m.) LONDON, Sep. 3. 4 Several speakers at the Trades Union Congress at Newport assailed the Labor members of the House of Commons accusing them of dilatoriness- in connection with the Trade Unions Bill. Mr Ward, member for Stoke-on-Trent. replied that the by-elections •showed that the workers were keener about Homo Rule and Welsh Disestablishment than about the Osborne judgment. Congress passed a resolution demanding the compulsory cultivation of ■ agricultural land.