TRADES UNION CONGRESS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 5 September 1912, Page 8

TRADES UNION CONGRESS

THE OSBORNE JUDGMENT.

ITS REVERSAL DEMANDED

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LONDON, Sep. 4. The Newport Congress, by a large majority, demanded the reversal of the Osborno judgment.

Mr Havelock Wilson, M.P., said that it was important to get the Home Rule, Disestablishment and Franchise Bills out of the way, and leave the Trade Union Bill until next session. Not a man in •ten cared a rap about the Osborne judgment. He asked, "Who was responsible for the judgment?" They were not satisfied with trade unions having the right to elect members of Parliament, but insisted, by a compulsory levy, to force members of the union to pay for a political policy with which they did not agree. They asked a man to join a union for trade union purposes, and then smuggled a resolution through, saying, "We are going to charge you a shilling a year, and if yon do not pay it, we will nrevent you following your occupation:" That was the cause of the trouble and uproar. When the elections came the Laborites ought to hold tho present seats, without winning any others.

The railway clerks' delegates twitted the Labor members of the House of Commons with wnnins; enthusiasm over the reversal of the Osborne judgment since they had obtained Parliamentary

salary.

SECULAR EDUCATION

(Received Sep. 5. 11 a.m.) LONDON, Sep. 4. After a heated debate the Trades Union Congress at Newoort resolved by '9.5^.000 votes^ to 909,000 that the Coii\pxess refrain from discussion of the qiieslion of secular education^