FEDERATION DISCUSSED.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 211, 5 September 1924, Page 5

FEDERATION DISCUSSED.

TRADE UNION CONGRESS.

UNITED STATES STANDS OUT. FOREIGN DELEGATES' VIEWS. [by Cable.—l'fess Association.—Copyright.) . (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON. September 4. 'Ihe Trade Union Congress passed a resolution in favour of pensions for widows and mothers whose family breadwinners are incapacitated. Foreign delegates addressed tbe Congress. Mr. Brady, of tho American .Federation of Labour, said they believed in International kinship, because trade unions were tlie Only substantial bulwarks against despotism like Kalscrism and Bolshevism, but it wa_ imposs-ble for the AmCriCaU Federation to participate in international federation trade unions. Which by a vote of fetv individuals could commit them to a policy completely at variance with their ideaa. Mr. l&iClellarid (Canada) said tho workers of Canada were troubled by the question of immigration. Last "year 133,000 immigrants entered the Dominion, but 183,000 left Canada to find a living in the United States. Mr. Tdmsky said the Labour movement all over the world was realising the necessity for greater concentration and centralisation to meet the growing internationalisation of capital. Tho vanquished of the Great War wcro tlie workers of the world. Tlie victors were a small group of profiteers in each country. The iron hand of world capitalism was now seizing the starving German proletariate by the throat. The Dawes plan was only a new scheme for exploitation, which would result in increased trade competition. Russian workers desired to co-operate in the light against the common | exploitation.— (Reuter.)