LABBUR CONGRESS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 September 1924, Page 9

LABBUR CONGRESS.

ADDRESSES BY FOREIGN DELEGATES.

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received Sept. 5, 11.35 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 4. The Trade Union Congress passed a resolution in favour of pensions for widows and mothers whose family breadwinner has been incapacitated". The foreign delegates addressed the congress.

Mr .Brady, American Federation of Labour, said they believed in international kinship, because trade unions were the only substantial bulwarks against despotism like Kaiserism and Bolshevism, but it .was impossible for the American Federation to participate in an international, federation of trade unions, which by the vote of a few individuals could commit them to a policy completely at variance with their ideas.

Mr McClelland (Canada) said the workers of Canada were troubled by the question of irnmigration. One hundred and thirty-three thousand entered last year, but 183,000 left Canada to find a living in the United States. M. Tomsky said the labour movement .. all oyer , the world was realising the necessity for greater concentration and centralisation to meet the growing internationalisation of capital. The vanquished of the great war were the workers of the world,’ and the victors were small groups of profiteers in each country. The iron hand of world capitalism was now seizing the starving German proletariat’s throat. The Dawes plan was only a new scheme for exploitation, which would result in increased trade competition, The Russian workers desired to co-operate in a fight against the common enemy—exploitation.