A SOCIALISTIC PROGRAMME.

Otago Witness, Issue 2116, 13 September 1894, Page 17

A SOCIALISTIC PROGRAMME.

London, September 5. Delves has been chosen president of the Labour Congress. Dealing gooerally with a remedy for Industrial ills, he contended the age of child labour must ba raised, women given equal pay with the men, and the hours of labour reduced in order to absorb tha unemployed.

September 6. The Labour Congress urges unionists to strongly support co-operative movements.

The Scotch masters refuse to accept the miners' offered compromise of 6d reduction par day.

The Trades Union Congress, sitting at Norwich, by 276 to 5 carried a resolution in favour of a general eight-hour daj ; also, motions in favour of the payment of members of Parliament, and legislation in the direction of making employers criminally liable for using defective plant.

The Trades Congress have carried a Socialist programme demanding that land and' the whole means, production, distribution, and exchange, shall be nationalised. A resolution was also passed in favour of imposing, a penalty on employers who import labourers daring strikes, < - v September 7. Messrs Burns, Mann, and Hardie supported the Socialist programme adopted by the congress, including nationalisation of mines. The voting was 219 for and 61 against. There was a scene of the wildest enthusiasm when the result was made known.

The Trades Union. Congress carried a resolution by a majority of 70 calling on the Government to prohibit the landing of destitute aliens in the United Kingdom.

- Mr S. Woods, M.P., has been elected parliamentary secretary of the Trades Union Congress, defeating Messrs Mann, and Fenwick. September 11. The action ot the Independent Labour party, whose Socialistic programme was carried afc the Norwich Congress, is embarrassjing the Liberal party.