REPLY TO MR. BALDWIN

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 211, 7 September 1927, Page 7

REPLY TO MR. BALDWIN

Trades Unionists Launch An

Attack.

RIDICULE APPEAL FOB PEACE.

(Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, September 6. The reply of the Trades Union Congress, now sitting in Edinburgh, to Mr. Baldwin's appeal for industrial peace, was the passing of a unanimous resolution to the effect that the workers, more than any section, are desirous of peace but that the greatest hindrance thereto are Mr. Baldwin's attacks on the staudards and liberties of the workers by lengthening the working hours for miners. The repeal thereof would be the best evidence of Mr. Baldwin's sincerity. Failing this the country should take the immediate opportunity of pronouncing a policy.

Mr. Ernest Bevin, in moving the resolution, said that Mr. Baldwin was facing both ways and this was responsible for the trouble which had been caused. Mr. Bevin said he was driven to the conclusion that there was political policy behind his appeals. The best contribution to peace would be Mr. Baldwin's resignation.

There was a lively debate on the extremists' motion for the examination of the future policy of the leadership of the movement.

. Mr. J. H. Thomas asked: How can workers have confidence when they nightly hear their leaders called rotten! The motion was defeated: