TRADES CONGBESS
WILL CONSIDER REPRESENTATION AT
STOCKHOLM
LABOUR'S SHARE IN THE
PEACE TERMS
London, August 24. Six hundred and ninety-two delegates, representing 3,100,009 members, will attend the annual OongMes of Trades Unions on September 3 at Blackpool. The numbers are' the largest on record. Many resolutions aio on. tho agenda paper relating to the war and peace. The conference will .be asked early, to give an opinion, on the Stockholm Conference by means of a vote for the selection of delegates for the conference. Other resolutions seek to define the attitudo of the congress on peace terms and Labour's share in them—Aus.-A.i. table Assn. ■ SUPPORT FOR ; BRITISH SEAMEN IN DECISION NOT TO CARET DELEGATES TO STOCKHOLM, (Rec. August 2G, 5.5 p.m.) London, August 25. Mr. Havelock Wilson: (secretary of_ the Seamen's Union) states that the BnteU seamen's refusal to' carry delegates to the Stockholm Conferences is now supported bv seven of the chief seafaring,societies, representing 200,000' seamen of. Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland; Italy, Prance,, and Russia—Reuter.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3174, 27 August 1917, Page 5
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166TRADES CONGBESS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3174, 27 August 1917, Page 5
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