ANOTHER BIG FUSION OF BRITISH UNIONS
A GREAT NATIONALISATION
SCHEME,
. _ LONDON, 30th May. A fusion of great British trade unions, similar to the Triple Alliance, is proceeding. The National Union of General Workers, the Dockers' Union, and the Carters' Union have formecj.-. an organisation, with a membership only exceeded by the Triple Alliance. The movement is cbnnected wiflia scheme to include the textile unions, under which the extremists hope to bo.able to force the nationalisation of all land, minerals, mines, royalties, and railways. On the contery, the extremists suffered a setback yesterday, .when the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress definitely refused to call a National Labour Conference to consider the schemes. Mr. Smillie and Mr. Robert Williams are for, a wholesale industrial strike to enforce their pacifist aims, including the abolition of compulsory service and the withdrawal of British troops from Russia.
LONDON, 28th May. , Tho Trade; Union Parliamentary Committee considers Mr. Bonar Law's assurances respecting the published demands sufficiently satisfactory to justify it in not calling a special trade union conference.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 134, 9 June 1919, Page 7
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