AFFAIRS IN BRITAIN.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16308, 4 September 1918, Page 7

AFFAIRS IN BRITAIN.

TRADE UNION PRO-ALLY DEMONSTRATION. (ily Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright; (Australian and N.Z.. Cable Association.) LONDON, September 2. In connexion with the Trade Union Congress, which is opening on Monday at Derby, a big pro-Ally demonstration carried a resolution, with only seven dissentients, conveying congratulations to the Allied armies and navies on their magnificent victories, and saying that there could be no peace until the Hohonzollorns and the Hapsburgs were crushed. Mr Will Thome proposed the motion, and Mr Ben Tillett second-ad it. Mr Thorne said that rather than accept peace at Russia's expense he' would prefer to see Britain wiped out. THE CONGRESS OPENED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received September 3rd, 7.20 p.m.) LONDON, September 2. The Trade Union. Congress at Derby has opened. There are 779 delegates, representing over 4,500,000 members. Mr Ogdcn, in his presidential address, defended the action of the Parliamentary Committee in striving to make itself a central bureau for the British section, of the International Trade Union Congress. The International Trade Union movement was full of immense possibilities. The close cooperation of the political and industrial elements in the British Labour movement, as represented by the Parliamentary Committee, was a matter of life and death for the realisation of Labour ideals. Congress must uphold the Labour Party. Wo ought, after four years of war, to try to discover a way to peace. Ho denied that this meant a dishonourable peace or peace at any price, but just peace on lasting , foundations. This war would not be the last unless the democracies took the sceptre from the hands of those who in tho past had tho power to unsheath the sword. Mr Ogden advocated internationalism amongst the workers, in order that those doing the bulk of the fighting might decide either for peace or war. He intended that the full significance of that statement should be appreciated in enemy countries. He unhesitatingly welcomed the plea for a peace atmosphere. If the workers remained 6olid and kept their vision clear they wouid soon see that an industrial Canaan was impossible. He could express nothing but horror and detestation of Germany's crimes, but their aim should be to get iogether and settle disputes.