THE TRADES CONGRESS.
THE EIGHT-HOURS' SYSTEM.
Press Association.—Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.
London, September 4. The Trades Congress, by a majority of eight, rejected an amendment proposing that it should be left to Trades Unions to secure the eight hours by voluntary action. Mr. Burns, in speaking to the amendment, contended that, unless the eight hours was legally enacted, the object could only be secured by a general strike or civil war. After a long and excited debate, the Congress resolved, by 193 to 155, " That the time has arrived when the stem of eight hours' labour in all trades should be obtained by legal enactment." Mr. Benjamin Tillett, one of the leaders of the great London Strike, strongly supported statutory action, but ridiculed the idea possessed by some of the speakers that Unionism would thereby be injured.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8354, 6 September 1890, Page 5
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