BRITISH TRADES UNION CONGRESS.
THE PRESIDENT SUPPORTS THE BUDGET. United Press Association —Copyright. (Received September 7, 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 7. I The Trade Union Congress has opened at Ipswich, 495 delegates, representing 1,701,000 unionists, being present. Mr. D. J. . Shackleton (Labor member of the House of Commons for the Clitheroe Division of Lancashire) presiding. He declared that the Budget is • the greatest finaniial reform of modern times. The care of the aged, the feeding of necessitious children, and the humaner treatment of unemployed, he declared, make an everincreasing demand on the public purse, and the Budget afforded an opportuniy of finding the necessary money without unduly taxing the people.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2601, 8 September 1909, Page 5
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110BRITISH TRADES UNION CONGRESS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2601, 8 September 1909, Page 5
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