TRADE UNION CONGRESS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 10 September 1925, Page 5

TRADE UNION CONGRESS.

LONDON PRESS COMMENTS

SEVERE CHECK TO LEFT WING

by CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Sept. 8. Most newspapers describe Tuesday’s proceedings at the Trade Union Congress as a severe check to the Lett Wing. Tne Daily Telegraph’s correspondent sums up: “This has been a bad day for the extremists of the Labour movement, whos© attempts to stampede the congress into laying the doundation for a general strike by gn - ing the council the necessary powers was deieated, though only in a manner ensuring its repetition.” The Daily Herald, in an editorial, says: “Many will read into the decision a meaning unwarranted by facts They will talk of a rebuff to the Left Wing, and espy splits and divisions in every speecn. They will be wrong. A common-sense decision was reached. An opening was afforded to a- united solution of a complex problem.”

CO-PARTNERSHIP CONDEMNED

ONE BIG UNION

SCHEME NOT FAVOURED. Received Sept.' 10, 1.45 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 9. A resolution condemning co-partner-ship and urging workers to I oral strong shop committees as weapons to compel capitalists to relinquish their ’••p on industries was carried by a substantial majority at the Trade Union Congress, despite the opposition ot the moderates, notably the transporter section, which described the motion as a thin'v-veiled attempt to pledge the •Congress to the principles of Communism. ' The motion was earned by •2 138.000 to 1,787.000. * The Congress rejected a proposal for the gradual amalgamation of unions with the ultimate aim of forming one big union. It also turned down,, by a similar majority, an amendment deprecating the foundation of one union, but welcoming the efforts to. consolidate t’-ade unions in more effective units. Renter. -