Ben Turner's Amazing Reference 0 Labour Emigration Scheme London, Sept. 3.
At the Trade Union Congress diamond jubilee meeting at Swansea today there were twenty-five fewer delegates than at the meeting last year.
'The affiliated membership of the has dropped chiefly 0} the loss of Civil Service unions under operation of the Trade Unions 'Act and because of the decreased membership of the Miners' Federation.
Mr, Ben Turner, in the course of hhis presidential address, said that was time for a move forward in the structure of the Trade Union, They might as well, he added, consider whether one union was a wise possibility.
Mr. Turner advocated reduction in tke hours of labour, at least among manual workers, as a help in solving the unemployment pro-Blem, He also advocated beginning swith' land nationalization here with view to the settlement of workers in land here instead of sending them "brutally to fight Nature in outposts of the Empire."
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