TRADE UNIONISTS CONFER
CONGRESS BEGINS AT BELFAST.
MEMBERSHIP DOWN BY 260,000.
By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received Sept. 2, 9.10 p.m Times. London, Sept. 2. T Mr. Ben Tillett, who presided at the Trade Union Congress at Belfast’ to-day, is one of the few survivors of the Bel-, fast Congress of 1893. The present con- _ <rress faces a decline of 200,000 members .since last year, largely due to a reduction in the number of coal miners. Congress devotes Its first, session to a discussion on the expansion of the Daily Herald.' The general, council proposes, as trade unionism is unable to find £1,000,000 required to develop the paper, that the business side, should be run by private enterprise with stringent safeguards as to the control of , policy and the preservation of trade union interests. '
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1929, Page 9
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