INDUSTRIAL MATTERS-

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14762, 4 September 1913, Page 7

INDUSTRIAL MATTERS-

TRADE UNION CONGRESS. ("Tim— -"-Sydney "Sun" Special Cable.) LONDON, September 2. Air Davies, in an address at the Trade Union Congress, said that the Labour Party should bo mainly political, because the political force of Labour was its greatest weapon. Nothing was so effective in creating public concern as the fear which statesmen had of tho franchise. Compulsory arbitration would legislate tho striko weapon put of existence. This thoy were not prepared for, sinco the millennium had riot yet arrived. LABOUR DAY PARADE. NEW YORK, September 2. A feature of the Labour Day celebrations was a parade of three thousand women in white dresses with banners inscribed with the mottoes "Equal Work," "Equal Pay," ''Equal Say." LONDON PAINTERS. LONDON, September 2. Tho ballot of the London painters resulted in a twenty-to-one majority against the acceptance of tho employers' terms. TRADES UNIONISM CRITICISED.. "Sun" Special Cable.) (Received September 3rd, 6.5 p.m). LONDON, September 2. "The Times" in a special article insisting on tho failure of trades unionism, says that between 1902 and 1906, 11,000,000 working days wero lost through strikes in Britain, and in 1912, 11,000,000, while working conditions have become harsher and harder. The workers are not only being speeded up by the employers, but they aro alsc being socially screwed down by the new governing class. With trades unionism pure and simple the workers went ahead, but with political trades unionism they aro going backward. REFUSED TO STRIKE. (Received September 3rd, 9.35 p.m.) LONDON, September 3. Lord Beauchantp, replying to the London Building Industries Federation, refused to dismiss three men for refusing to strike. THE RAND TROUBLE. (ReceivetTßentember 3rd, 11.20 p.m.) JOHANNESBURG, September 3._ A sensation has been caused in Labour circles by Air James Clark, a member of the ' Town Council, being called out from a Council meeting and arrested for delivering an incendiary speech on Saturday. Mr Clark was bailed out. SEAMEN'S UNION. (pp-ess ARaociATinv tethcra-.) DUNEDIN, September 8. Tho comploto returns for the ballot of tho Seamen's Union show that *636 voted for amalgamation with the United Federation of Labour, and 886 against. •GERMANY'S TRADE. a A PRESS CAMPAIGN. ("Ti_cs"-Sydncy "Sun" Special Cable) (Received September 3rd, 6.5 p.m.) BERLIN, September 2. The "Vorwiirts," the lead-'ng Socialist paper, reveals a scheme which has been organised in the interests of Germany's trade and foreign policy, by which newspapers in all parts of the world will bo asked to publish letters describing events in Germany, written by the staff of a daily paper shortly to be published. It is alleged that fifty foreign oversea papers have already promised to publish