STRIKE INCITEMENT

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 21, 19 October 1944, Page 5

STRIKE INCITEMENT

British Union Debate (Received October 18, 7 p.m.) LONDON, October 17. A resolution opposing a defence regulation which prohibits incitement to strikes and demanding its immediate withdrawal after the European war was defeated by 884,000 votes at the resumed session of the Trades Union Congress at Blackpool. The general secretary, Sir Walter Citrine, in a statement on the resolution, said that the council of the T.U.C. thought the Government had an unanswerable case. The council had subscribed to the view that strikes should not occur and that persons participating should be penalized, and yet at the same time persons sometimes outside the area of a strike and having nothing to do with industiies concerned had been allowed freely to instigate a strike. The congress, after a private session to discuss a demand for the withdrawal ot certain sections of the Trades Disputes Act, adopting a resolution declaring that the continued refusal by the Government to amend the Act in spite of overwhelming support for amendment was a, complete denial of aims for which the United Nations were fighting. In a further statement on the newspapers’ attitude toward the congress, which had decided to admit only members of the National Union of Journalists, ■ Sir Walter Citrine read a list of the newspapers directly represented at the congress. The list included only four national newspapers, the “Daily Herald,” “Daily Mirror,” “Daily Worker” and “Yorkshire Post.” The national newspapers not represented at the congress are using news agency reports.