EMPIRE LABOUR CONFERENCES.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19715, 4 September 1929, Page 11

EMPIRE LABOUR CONFERENCES.

MR TILLETrS PROPOSAL. APPROVED BY LONDON PRESS. (trmrSD tress associatios—bi electric IXLZOairH —COTYIUGHT.) (Received September 3rd, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, September 3. In his presidential address to the Trades Union Congress at Belfast, Mr Ben Tillett suggested the holding of periodical inter-Dominion conferences of organised Labour throughout the Empire, either concurrently with the official Imperial Conferences, or independently. Such conferences would consolidate organised Labour throughout the British Commonwealth. The ''Daily Telegraph" says: Mr Tillett's address will be read with no little astonishment. His darling hope is no longer to smash up the present organisation of industry, but to acquire for representatives of Labour a recognised place in its direction and control. If the requisite machinery is once firmly established the status of trades unionism will be immensely improved.' The "Daily Chronicle" also expresses the opinion that organised Labour has moved a long way from the. errors of 1926. It states: We agree with Mr Tillett that everything possible should be done to build up trade with the Dominions. He throws out a practical suggestion that inter-Dominion conferences of organised labour should be held. The "Morning Post" says: We gather from the address that at last the Trades Union Congress has begun to realise the importance of the British Empire to the British workman. If the Congress realises its value to the workers, let it restrain Mr Snowden from doijiji away with preference to the Dominions. The "Daily, News'' entitles its leader "Trades Unions Look Ahead." It specially approves of periodic conferences of organised Labour throughout the Empire.—Australian Press Association.