BRITISH MINERS’ FEDERATION.
DETERMINED TO FETTER MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT.
United Press Association— Copyright
(Received October 10, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, October 9
The Miners’ Federation Conference at Newcastle unanimously farvored a uniform minimum wage of 8s a day throughout the Federation area. After a debate with closed doors, the Conference decided that Messrs T. Burt and C. Fenwick, members of the House of Commons, must sign the Labor ticket or lose the miners’ support. [Mr. Thos. Burt lias been Liberal member for Morpeth since 1874, and was secretary of the Northumberland Miners’ Union as long ago a s 1865. Mr. C. Fenwick, Liberal and Labor member for the Wansbeck division of .Northumberland, has helci that seat since 1885, and is a prominent trades unionist. Both these veteran Labor leaders have hitherto refused’to submit to the servitude involved by binding themselves to the “Labor ticket.”]
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2629, 11 October 1909, Page 5
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143BRITISH MINERS’ FEDERATION. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2629, 11 October 1909, Page 5
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