LABOUR CONGRESS
IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS
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Received Sept. 6, 11.10 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 5. The Trades Union Congress passed a resolution in favour of reducing the number qf trades unions to a minimum and_ aiming as far as possible at organisation by industry, with every worker a member of an appropriate organisation, and instructing the general council to draw uo a scheme for organisation by industry, and a scheme which- might procure unitv of action. Messrs W. J. Kelly and Jack Jones opposed the declaring it reactionary. They should aim for one union covering the whole of the workers.
The conference unanimously adopted a resolution congratulating the Government on the signing of the Anglo-Rus-sian treaties, and calling on the Government, and Commons specially, to facilitate the ratification of the treaties and the application thereof as most important to the v r orld peace and economic recovery. _ A resolution .was adopted instructing the general council to call a special congress to decide upon industrial action immediately there is danger of war.—Reuter. 7
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 6 September 1924, Page 7
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