TRADES CONGRESS.
(lIV KLKCrWU TKI.KCH.VPH.—COI'VItrr.HT.) Lon'Do.v, September 10. Thk Trades' Union Congress, sitting in Glasgow, has resolved in favour of the Eight Hours' Hill, but permitting trades to withdraw from its provisions where the local union denands it. Another rssolution, which was carried, favoured a separate Bill being introduced to give eight hours to the miners. The Congress exnellnd, amid hisses, „_ the delegates from"the Glasgow liar- < W bour Labourers' Union, whom it was alleged had boon systematic " scabbors." Mr C. Fen wick, M.P., has been reelected Parliamentary Secretary of the Congress, anil it was resolved that the next meeting should be held in Belfast. The Tr.ides Union Congress has approved of the intern-itional eight hours' conference.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3155, 13 September 1892, Page 2
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116TRADES CONGRESS. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3155, 13 September 1892, Page 2
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