Show TRADES UNION CONGRESS Various Matters Passed Upon by tho Convention In Session In London London Sept 5The Trades Union congress today rejected a resolution introduced In-troduced by I the general union of weavers weav-ers to the effect that The time had now arrived when In the economic Interests I terests of women the franchise should ho extended to them on the same plane as It was or rnay bo to men A naturalization resolution presented by ho Manchester Jewish tailors union was adopted It asks for a ror ductlon of naturalization fee so thnt It may be within the reach oC every workman who has been u member of a trade union for u period of five years The congress also adopted a motion favoring the payment of members of Parliament In order to allow all see tlon nf tho community to he adequately adequate-ly represented In the House of Commons Com-mons It was also voted that the parliamentary parliamen-tary committee he Instructed to Introduce Intro-duce a bill In the House of Commons to prevent any children under 15 yearn of age being employed In any textile ore lionlex tile factories The Clsnrnmkcrfl Mutual I association Introduced a resolution aimed against capitalistic combines which was unanimously adopted It was as follows fol-lows That In tho opinion of thIs conprcpa the growth of gIgantic capitalistic trusts with their enormous power of controlling production Is injurious to tho advance ment of the worklnir classes as by such combination the prices of commodities urn rained the standard of comfort of the people can be reduced the work mens freedom endangered and National prosperity menaced rho speakers contended that the time had arrived when If I the state did not I control the trusts the latter would control con-trol the state and that the only permanent per-manent solution of the difficulty rested rest-ed In national ownership and control of these monooollea At the Instance of the navies and General laborers union the following resolution was passou That this congress of British radon unionists place on record Its unqualified disapproval of the wur against tho Orange Free Stntc and Transvaal Republic Re-public believing that tho question of cx lomUnr the franchise nail the protection of Industry wan not the real cause of the disunite but the mere flhleld to cover an unscrupulous conspiracy to grab territory ter-ritory and replace wellpaid white labor with unpaid partially enslaved blacks and Asiatic Further Thin congress reaffirms its continued hostility to nil wars of foreign for-eign aggression which only tend to enrich en-rich the sinister figure of cosmopolitan finance whoso main object Is to hold the workers of nil countries In universal social so-cial and economic servitude |