COMMUNIST ELEMENT
TO BE PURGED FROM TRADE UNION MOVEMENT “ ' (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, September 4. A feature of to day’s proceedings of the annual conference of tlie Trades Union Congress was the adoption by an overwhelming majority of a resolution moved by the Railway Clerks’ Association, instructing the General Council to take steps to purge the trade union movement of the Communist element. DECLINE IN. UNIONISTS (Australian Press Association.) (Rec. September 5, 11.5 p.m.) London, September 4. At the Trade Union Congress. Mr. J. 11. Thomas, in an outspoken speech, aimed at Cook, referred to the decline of two million trade unionists, and asked: “Can you blame men for refusing to join when they are told their leaders have sold them and cannot be trusted ?” Mr. Herbert Smith spoke strongly against Communists.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 289, 6 September 1928, Page 11
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