LABOR IN BRITAIN
TRADES UNION CONGRESS. SEAMEN’S UNION DISAFFILIATED. (British Official News.) Pros* Association—By Wireless—Copyright. RUGBY, November 23. It is understood that the General Council of the Trades Union Congress has decided to accept the decision of its Disputes Committee to suspend the National Union of Seamen from further affiliation with the. Trades Union Congress and the Seamen’s Union, bl which Mr Havelock Wilson is head, because of the muon’s gifts to the nonpolitical miners' organisation. The effect of the suspension will be that tbe Trades Union Congress will lose the affiliated membership of about 60,000. MR WILSON NOT PERTURBED. LONDON, November 24. (Received November 25, at 1.30 a.m.) It is understood that tbe Trades Union Congress has decided to suspend the affiliation jaf the Seamen’s Union for persisting in making a monetary advance to the Miners’ Non-political Union. Mr Havelock Wilson .says he is, not perturbed in the least. Another interesting announcement is the dissolving of the Transport Workers’ Federation in consequence of the seamen’s secession, sincc the letter predominated in membership.
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Evening Star, Issue 19723, 25 November 1927, Page 6
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173LABOR IN BRITAIN Evening Star, Issue 19723, 25 November 1927, Page 6
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