NATIONALISATION.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 209, 3 September 1919, Page 7

NATIONALISATION.

DEMANDS OF UNIONS,

MANY ISSUES COVERED. (By Cable. —rress Association.—Copyright.' LONDON, September 2. Nationalisation bulks largely in the agenda of the Trades Union Congress, which is to be held in Glasgow on September 8. Apart from the annual resolution in favour of the nationalisation of the means of production, distribution, and exchange, the Parliamentary Committee is to submit a report on the Coal Commission's findings and the Gov eriimeut's decisions thereon.

The Agricultural Labourers' Union demands a national campaign or other necessary action to secure nationalisation of the land. The railway clerks demand the nationalisation of the railways and all other means of transport. The locomotive engineers are submitting a comprehensive motion for the nationalisation of land, railways, and mines. The shipbuilders and shipwrights want the nntionalh'ation of shipping an 1 shipbuilding.

.Mr. C. \\ • liowerman, Parliamentary secretaiy to the Trades Cnion Congress, h.is announced his intention to lay the letter of Mr. Brownlie, urging increased product ion, before the Trades Cnion Congress. He will ask the leader* to give t. real lead in regard to the ni'Ct'Ssi'y for increased production. Mr. G. N. Barnes, Pensions Minister, in a speech at Walworth, said tho lopsided organisations, governed only by materialistic ami sectional considerations, were likely to result in rival organisations getting a strangle-hold on the community, by which everyone, including members of such organisations themselves would suffer. He added tin:t rancour and ill-will could not cure present-day evils.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)

TES SANKEY REPORT. DEI.SAND FOR ADOPTION. (Received 10.1'S a.m.) LONDON, September '1. The miners" executive recommend tomorrow's conference to reject the Government scheme for dealing with mines. It docs not recommend the miners to take industrial action, but invites the Trade I'niou Congress to declare that the fullest and most effective action lie taken to secure the Government's adoption of the majority report of the Sankey Commission.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)