TRADES UNION CONGRESS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8528, 5 September 1907, Page 5

TRADES UNION CONGRESS.

BIG GATHERING OF DELEGATES. Received September 4, 7.27 a.m. LONDON, September 3. Five hundred and twenty-one delegates, representing one million seven hundred thousand persons, are attending the fortieth annual Trades Union Congress at Bath. Thirty' Six Labour members of the House of Commons are present. The Parliamentary Committee's report recommends that members should support miners' legal eight .hours day, reduction of the hours ot all trades, old-age pensions, legislation dealing with the unemployed problem, compulsory State insurance, land nationalisation, amendment of the property laws, and legal restriction of systematic overtime. Mr Gill, Labour member for Bolton, is president of the Congress. Received September 4, 10.4 p.m. LONDON, September 4. In connection with the report onunemployment several delegates violently attacked Mr John Burns, President of the Local Government Board, describing him as a "lost soul." An animated discussion took place on the relations of the Labour Party and the Trade Unions, and it was decided to contirue to try and attain complete Parliamentary unity. Mr A. H. Gill, Labour member for Bolton, advocated a pension of 5s per week to all persons over 60 years of age, SUNDAY EMPLOYMENT. September 4, 10.4 p.m. LONDON, September 4. The Bath Congress, by 685,000 votes to 649,000, rejected a reso'ution discouraging employment on Sundays. Several speakers declajed *,hat the resolution embraced a spirit of S?bbatarianism. It would, they considered, be sufficient to try to restrict the hours of labour, securing for the workers one day in the seven not necessarily Sunday.