BRITISH TRADES UNION LEADER

Evening Star, Issue 23861, 16 April 1941, Page 6

BRITISH TRADES UNION LEADER

VISIT OF MR W. HOLMES MESSAGE FROM LABOUR AT HOME [Pee United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, April 15. Regret that, because of the irregularity of shipping. Mr W. Holmes, _ » past president of the Trades Union Congress of Great Britain, had not arrived in the Dominion in time to attend the conferences of the Federation of Labour and the Labour Party was expressed by the Prime Minister. Air Fraser, speaking at a concert held in his honour to-night. Air Holmes, ho added, would arrive soon, bearing a message from organised . Labour of Britain. He would tell how the British workers had faced up to the war situation, of tho difficulties they had had to overcome, and of_ how British trades unionists were united in tho struggle for democracy, not in lip service only, but in the fields, the factories, the workshops, and the docks. Mr Fraser said it would be his privilege on behalf of the-leader of tho Australian Labour Party, Air J. Curtin, and the Acting Prime Alinister of Australia, Mr A. W. Fadden, to invito Air Holmes to visit Australia also as a guest of the Government there.