TRADES UNIONS IN PARLIAMENT.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12769, 10 February 1910, Page 2

TRADES UNIONS IN PARLIAMENT.

THE HOUSE OF LORDS. PROPOSED COLONIAL REPRESENTATION. (Received Feb. 9, 10.45 p.m.) London, Feb. 9. The Labour Conference, after a private discussion of the Osborne judgment, resolved that unions ought to be allowed to engage in political activity, provided their members agree and their actions are specified in the union rules as part of their declared objects. Mr Griffiths, M.P. for Wednesbury, writing to the "Daily Mail," proposed that the Upper House be curtailed to 200 members, the colonies to be asked to nominate 40 members, who have done Imperial work, Canada ten, Australia eight, and the others proportionately. ; He adds that an Imeprial Navy is now a.n urgent necessity. The dominions perceive the need and begin to build. Unless they are given a chance of expressing their feelings in -regard to the management of the -Navy, Britain cannot expect any fixed method or percentage of contribution. We have had enough of slamming the door in the face of the colonies.