A UNITED FRONT

Evening Post, Issue 73, 23 September 1936, Page 13

A UNITED FRONT

AGAINST WAR AND FASCISM

A United Front against War - and Fascism and active resistance to riiilitary or industrial conscription will be called for at the sixty-eighth annual Trades Union Congress in the Plymouth Guildhall, says the "Daily Telegraph." An emergency resolution on the international situation, drafted in conjunction with the Socialist Party, will be submitted by the General Council. Five unions have tabled resolutions on working-class opposition to war. The distributive and allied workers, "seriously alarmed at the war developments in Europe," call upon the congress to co-operate with the Labour Party in a powerful national peace campaign. The campaign, it is suggested, should emphasise that the collective peace system is the only effective defence of this country, and that the armament industry should be nationalised. .... Furnishing trade workers want a declaration. affirming emphatically "that on no account whatever shall the trade union movement assist the Government in its desire for conscription." The same union insists, in another resolution, that a united front of all people sincerely opposed to war and Fasism should at once be inaugurated. These workers are joined by the coal; trimmers in resolutions for a united front against capitalism, which is de.j scribed as "a strong and unscrupulous enemy." CORONATION DAY PAY. Sixty resolutions appear on tht agenda. They ask the conference, among other things, to:— ~■■•. Appoint a committee to. remodel trade union organisation—a "desperate need." , ~: Urge a boycott of anti-trade union employers. Ask the Government to reorganise the cotton industry and accept responsibility for the problem of rural water supplies. . " Press for^an increase of factory inspectors ana urge amendments to th» law ori workmen's Compensation. Agitate for a 40-hour week, paid holidays for all workers, pensions at 60, and compensation for loss of employment. ■ Safeguard the payment of wages if Coronation Day is proclaimed a national holiday. The National Union of General and Municipal Workers desires a statement that "untold misery • and suffering to vast sections of the community" is; being caused by the. Government's "inertia" respecting the special areas, and demanding an immediate programme of utility services and public works, whose cost should be a direct charge on the national exchequer. Negotiations with the Russian trada union movement are proposed by the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers, .with a view to the development. of international unity. The clerks join with the engineers i«> urging a delegation to Russia.