Show I XI S OF 01 rho demands of o British labor within the last laHI fen el years efUS have ha 0 been heen HO und and io o radical In their the nature as asto to put most of or the proposals of or Amer American I ican unionism radical radl as s rno of o these arc quite Into the background Three great labor organizations havo hae recently hold held their annual conventions in ill that country The rho labor leaders and tho Socialist leaders came close clo o cr e Their members ln I parliament nl have agreed that neither thc labor nor thu Ihl should oppose official candidate nominated ut ul the polls by llio Iha other OthOl anti and fortnightly fOJt meetings In lu common session Hession havo been b cn regularly hold with a view to lo scouring practical al cooperation c In h tho House H tle o ot Commons At l the labor congress according to tor reports r of the proceedings PI the chair chairman man Mr n Ii of par I clit b tho wa look up congenial subject t of ut ohl age petitions pens ons He admitted that al the th p had J J made mude a concession Jn In tho granting oC eight millions sterling to 10 this object hut but he echoed ec 1 cd the tl e standard c note jote of o his party b tl the age of o seventy sC as derisive e Ho thought that If Jf WOOlI a reasonable ago for fot forthe the cIvIl service surely sixty was ade adequate a t quate for fOI those who hud so many risks attending occupations In our factories and workshops mines buildings ships and tho various arlous agricultural operations of oC the country Tho labor loaders failed to Indicate from Just what sources they the expect tho money to come with which to carry out their elaborate plan o of universal pensions I Tho Th attitude of or the congress was wa sig significant After first t P passing a IJ resolution lion tion Importing but not nol expressing thanks Iha lo tho government for fol what had already lidY been done dOlle towards pension tho aged poor tho law later I cancelled this apparently sensible res resolution held to lo bo O un undeserved deserved Pensions were looked upon as than as favors or bene benefactions factions On the of ot the unemployed tho act of If parliament Intended to re rc relieve lieve the situation was utterly con condemned op a n failure The government was called cal d on to lo recognize that unemployment plo Is now permanent In charac character leI ter In III busy as os In lack seasons In sum summer mer a I III winter and is common to all trades and industries In The congress de declared deI that Uial tho 1110 time hu arrived when whon I provision must be hI made for tol the tho pur of oC work of public utility for all cllon l of or unemployed fd men and women Next a 11 resolution Was Vas moved pro pm n l n t the action of o employers In and refusing to employ workmen over forty olty l of oC ago or 01 those some Home slight physical ph de dc detect ed owing WI g to the placed up upon on them by tho Wo Insurance companies And thus It Il turned out that those who 1110 demanded obtained the passing of oC the acts of or lm 1906 are already nha beginning to that In III take or II are al made lo 10 take lak steps to in IJ against l loss 10 R The Tho employers In Insured their mI The insurance ance companies would lako only II II b those tho sound of oC hOlly body and In good health And now the slate is ordered so HU to 0 speak by hy the th labor congress to t prevent this rc le by h a It system of compulsory l of o its own Th result would be b to oust 1 all companies and to 10 replace Ilo 11 policies by h state lale In carried on at III a 1 loS Ions fur for tho of organized 11 labor t n tI financial cil II ls ts and the tho pm l m of oC the thc unemployed ll etl with which already allend has hn her Itel hands full just jn 1 now nil It would that labor lahar has han ChO UM II wrong Iong moment and Ind has bas adopted a lL most moH unlikely form for the lh of Its demands to obtain any substantial nUb or Immediate relief |