BRITISH TRADE UNIONISTS

Evening Star, Issue 18729, 3 September 1924, Page 8

BRITISH TRADE UNIONISTS

ALL-INCLUSIVE INTERNATIONAL SUGGESTION. Press Association —By Telegraph Copyright. LONDON, Sptomber 2. (Received September o, et 11.10 a.m.) At the Trade Union Congress Mr Pollitt pleaded for an “all-inclusive international.” Ho declared that when the Dawes Report had been in operation for a year an all-inclusive international would ba needed to prevent tho Gorman work•ers’ low standard of living from being held as a pistol at tho heads of the organised workers of the world. Mr Will Thorne, M.P., said there would he a better chance of _ achieving unity if the Moscow International moderated its language, instead of describing tho British Labor delegates as letlow Internationals and bourgeois delegates, who were always backing up the bosses. This old, stodgy argument was played out. , Mr Ben Tillett, M.P., said that he was readv to forgive even insulting language. He believed if they could get a rapproachement with responsible Russian trade union representatives they would be a.blo to hammer out some useful organisation. Mr C. T. Cramp (secretary of tho National Union of Railwayman) said they must accept no dictation from tho Russians, but they should meet thorn _ as equals. There was a great disposition to worship the Russians as angels. After all, the British movement was tho greatest trade union movement in the world. Any meetings arranged must bo with genuine Russian trade unionists, and not with hangers-on. Mr J. Sexton, M.P., said that tho Soviet had absolutely admitted its failure when it cake to a capitalist country to borrow money. They were not _ going to throw away in England the fruits of years of trade union organisation. The question then dropped.—Reuter.