BRITISH TRADE UNIONS.
DECLINE OF 500,000 MEMBERS.
A. and N.Z. . LONDON, Sept. 3. The Trades. Union Congress opened at Plymouth. There are 700 delegates, representing 4.369,000 members of affiliated unions, a decline of over 500,000, compared with last year.
The Trades Union Congress will con-, sider a resolution demanding pensions for mothers, similar to the American scheme. Described as an urgent economic necessity in view of the war's wastage, another motion seeks railway nationalisa iton declaring huge railway combines to be inimical to the public interests. The Railwaymen's Union suggests a sixhour working day in all industries. . The Seamen's Union protests against the employment of cheap Chinese and other Asiatic labour on British ships, and d'mands the prohibition of Asiatics aboard ships running west of Suez, and the repatriation , of Asiatic seamen unemployed in Britain,; \
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18496, 5 September 1923, Page 9
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