Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-29
BRITISH LABORUN|ONS
To Assemble in Liverpool on
September 3.
FOR AN ANNUAL CONGRESS
To Review Work Of Organized Labor
in Last Campaign.
MANY TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION
Advance Program Contains Twenty
Seven Sections and Subjects Range
From Serious to Highly Novel.
MANY TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION

LIVERPOOL. August % Representa-
tfves of organized labor of Great Britain
will assemble here September for the
thirty-ninth annual trades union congress-
and Will continue in session for five days.
The wonderful success of the candidates of
organized labor at the national elections
and the number of problems for which solu-
ton must be sought along political lines,
that are to come before the congress, give
special importance to the session The ad-
vance program contains twenty-seven Sec
lions. and the subject run from the deeply
serious to the highly novel, A proposal
interesting to Americans favors 1.-The pass
age In Great Britain of homestead act.
such as exists in the United States, exempt
ing reasonable amount of household goods
from seizure. The lockers will protest
against the passage Of the theological acts
In place of educational measures" and the
gas workers will seek the passage of reso-
lutions covering the following seven pro-
posals:
Seven Proposals.
I'D The state maintenance Of school
children.
go Scientific physical education. with
medical inspection and records Of the phys
ical development Of all children attending
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tendance for any child requiring same.
"3) The complete dissertation of re-
forms l and from poor law administra-
ton.
20 A national system of education
unoer iull popular control free and secular
from the primary school to the university
(5) That secondary and technical edu-
cation be an essential part of every childs
education. and secured by such an extern
sion OF the scholarship system as will place
NJ o1o1o lit
OF every child. and thus make il possible
for all children to be full-time day pupils
up to the age of 16.
90 That the best intellectual and tech
meal training be provided for the teachers
Of the children of the people,
Cd That the cost of education shall be
met by grants from the imperial exchequer,
and by the restoration OF misappropriated
educational endowments"
For q Secular System.
The great body of organized labor in the
country seems to strongly favor a purely
secular system Of education, and the educa-
ton bill introduced by the present liberal
government does not go far enough to suit
the labor interests. 1t is believed that the
resolution declaring for the secularization
of the schools will be carried by heavy
majority.
There will be resolutions against militia
rism and welcoming international arbitra-
ton, recognizing May / as labor day, IA
voring universal old-age pensions applying
to both sexes at the age of sixty and to be
at the rate Of at least five shillings per
week, for the Matchmaking of all railways,
canals, mines and minerals in the United
Kingdom for the founding of a labor news
paper. for the certification Of all men in
charge of engines and boilers and for the
examination of apprentices from time to
time to see II they are being efficiently in
structed in their handicraft.
A Citizens Force Favored.
The tin and iron plate sheet metal work.
ers and braziers will offer a resolution IA
voring the establishment of a national cit
izen force, believing this to be the best
means Of putting an end to the wars of ag-
gression abroad and securing freedom from
the capitalist oppression for the workers at
home"
There will also be action on the amend
ment of the aliens act in the house Of
lords and that august body will probably
be rOundly scored. When the measure was
recently before the upper house an amend
ment providing against the importation of
workmen to take the place of strikers
which had been inserted at the request of
the labor members of the house of COM
mons was stricken out.
The congress will also be asked to vote
on a resolution involving an important re-
form in the procedure of parliament. At
present all private members bills pending
at the close of the session die regardless
of their nature or the progress they are