Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-08-29
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UNIVERSAL OLD AGE PENSIONS
Want schools ScCularlsed aud Usll.
ways, Canals. Mine, aud Min.
erals Nalionalllcd.

Liverpool, Eng, Aug - Rcprcsru-
tstives ~ the organized labor Of Great
Britain win assemble here Sept 3 for
the thirty-uuth annual trades union
congress and will continue in session
FOR i've days The wonderful success
NJ the candidates NJ organized labor
At tho national election. aud the num-
her Of problems for which solution
must be sought along political lines.
mat are On come before the congress.
give special Importance 20 the session.
The advance program contains % Soc
IONS and the subjects rum from the
deeply serious Ia the highly novel 4
proposal Interesting To Americans IA
Nors tho passage Ion Great Britain of
homestead act. such as exists in the
'nited states cNemptiug reasonable
amount Of household goods from SELF
ure. The lockers Will protest against
the passage Of theological acts I'm the
place or educational measures and the
gas workers VIII seek tho passage of
resolutions covering the following
seven proposals.
The state maintenance Of school
children
g. Scientific physical education. with
| medical inspection and records Of the
physical development OF an children
attending the state schools and skilled
medical attendance for any child re-
quirlng tho same
:. The complete dissertation al re-
forms from poor law administration.
under fun popular control. free and
secular from tho primary school 10
the university.
D. That secondary and technical cd
ucation he am essential pant Of every
child's education. and secured hv such
am extension ~ the scholarship sys-
TEN as viii pslce maintenance Of the
scholarship within the reach OF every
child and thus make Il possible for an
children 10 be full-time- dsy pupils mp
10 the age Of l6
That the best Intellectual and
technical training be provided for the
teachers ~ the children OF the people
Z That the cost Of education shall
be- met BY drafts from the imperial
eNchequer and by the restoration Of
misappropriated educational endoW-
ments
The great body OF organized labor in
the country seems 10 be strongly IA
favor ~ purely secular system OF edu-
cation and The eduyation bill introduced
hy The present Liberal government
does NOT 60 Tar enough 90 suit the la
Dor interests. II rs believed the reso-
luton declaring for the secularizati0u
Of the schools viii be carried by
heavy majority
There will be resolutions against
mlitarism aud welcoming international
arbitration. recognizing May ! as La
Dor day fav0ring universal old age
pensions applying TO both sexes az the
age ~ 90 years. and 10 be al the rate
Of al least FIVE shlllings per week for
the nationalizing " all railways, canals.
mines and minerals in the United
Kingdom for the founding of a labor
newspaper, Tor the certihcatiou Of an
men in charge 81 engines and boilers.
and for the examination Of appren-
tees from time ~ time 20 see " they
are being efficiently instructed Boo their
haudiCraft
The tin and iron plate. sheet metal
workers and bragiers viii offer n reso.
luton fayuring the establishment OF
national citizen force believing this %
be- the best means ~ putting an end
tO The wars OF aggression abroad and
securing freedom from the capitalist
oppression for the workers at home.
There Will also be action on the
amendment OF the aliens act in the
house OF lords and that august body
viii probably be r0uudly scored When
the measure was recently before the
upper house am amendment proylding
against the importation OF Workmeu 10
take the places Of the strikers which
had been inserted 40 the request OF the
Labor members OF the house 81 COM
mons YVES stricken out
The congress will also be- asked 90
vote ON "a resolution involving an inn
pouaut reform Boz the procedure OF
parliament Al present all private
members bills pending at the close u
the session die regardless OF their ma
ture or The progress they are making
through either The house ~ lords or
the house of commons. The rcsOh-
tiou boo question viii pronounce in IA.
yor Of the ahiltiou Of this system aud
the substitution of one under which
private members bills may be carried
over 90 the subsequent sessions and
eventually nut 10 a vote.
u Is also expected that the Russian
situation viii be considered and that
the congress will put itself on record
in favor Of responsible government in
the disturbed empire.