LABOR IN AUSTRALIA

Evening Star, Issue 19550, 7 May 1927, Page 10

LABOR IN AUSTRALIA

TRADES UNION CONGRESS

SPEEDING-UP METHODS OPPOSED

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MEuBOLIINT. May 6. The All-Australian Trades Ur.ior, Ccngress discussed the piece-work question, and resolved that piece-wcrk, bans systems, co-partnership, and othe - such schemes were insidious and pernicious forms of excessive speedingup, and should be strenuously opposed by the industrial movement in Australia, and that steps should bo taken to circumvent American speeding-up methods in Australia.

On the motion of Mr J. Garden, it was decided to defer the proposed affiliation with the International Federation of Trade Unions at Amsterdam until the Amsterdam International had acceded to the request by the Red International of Labor Unions for an “all-in” conference to achieve the unity of the workers of the world. It was decided to convene u pnnPacific congress of trade union organisations in 1928 for the purpose of finding a mutual attitude towards any outbreak of war in the Pacific. CLOSER ORGANISATION. MELBOURNE, May 6. At the congress the major issue before the delegates was the proposal providing for the closer organisation and the transformation of the Australasian trade union movement from a craft to an industrial basis. This was carried by 92 to 20. After a discussion the congress adopted the name of the Australasian Council of Trades Unions.