LABOR IN ENGLAND.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 216, 19 September 1910, Page 5

LABOR IN ENGLAND.

£SY ELECTRIC TELEGBAPH —COPYRIGHT.]

-TRADES UNIONISM AND SECULAR. EDUCATION.

OSBORNE JUDGMENT TO BE

DEFIED.

[PRESB ASSOCIATION.] (Received Sept. 18, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 17. The Shipbuilders,' Federation will told a, joint meeting witk the boileranakers' representatives on. Wednes* <3ay % After that they will join the Trades Committee.

■/ The Trades Union Congress, by 827,000 to 81,000, negatived ;Mr O'Grady's proposal to take a ballot <& aJI affiliated societies, on the retention or'deletion of a secular education policy in the trades unionist programme. The majority feared that a ballot would introduce the* Apple of discord into trades unionist organisations. Some unions have determined to ijpav levies in defiance off the Osborne .judgment, and thereby disobey the injunctions, hoping that the leaders "will be imprisoned, and thus■(Jhorough--3y rouse the working classes. The Taff Vale case cost the trades OTiions £37,000, and the Osborne one £7000. Ths Labor Party's present reserve fund is £10,000. Mr W. J. Davis, 'interviewed, de^«clared that the money behind the xibjjectors' levy emanates from "haters -of •trades unions. . -