TRADES UNIONS.
Received September 3, 0.56 a.m. LONDON, September 2. The Trades Union Congress, now being held at Holbom Town Hall, represents a million and a half workers. Mr W. C. Stedman, secretary of the Barge Builders' Union, is president. The Bishops, of London, Rochester, and St. Albans wrote welcoming the Congress. Mr John Burais declared the had met at a .critical time, when the law was inflicting heavy strikes. Without strict impartiality the unionists were determined at all costs to resist the attempts of an unscrupulous plutocracy to ■deprive them of their rights of combination.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11727, 3 September 1902, Page 5
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