Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1908 — BRITISH TRADE UNIONS [ARTICLE]

BRITISH TRADE UNIONS

They Are Meeting in Congress at Not* tinghain with 1,778,000 Members Represented. Nottingham, Sept. B*r-The fortythird trade union congress baa beeu opened here under tbs presidency ot Jamas Shackletoo, member of parliament for the CUtheroe division of Laneashire and member of the parliamentary committee of the trade union congress. A welcome was accorded to the delegates by the mayor of Nottingham. The attendance breaks the record, the delegates numbering SIS and representing 1,776.000 members of affiliated societies. This is an Increase of 76,000 over last year’s congress at Bath, notwithstanding the withdrawal from membership of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers and the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, which, together, numbered 106,000. The cougreas will remain in ses* slon for a week. *