LIVELY DEBATE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 10 September 1927, Page 9

LIVELY DEBATE

AT TRADE UNION CONGRESS. BREAK WITJH RUSSIA. CHARACTERISED AS A CRIME. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. Received 1.25 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Bept. 10. The even tenor of the Trade Union Congress was disturbed by the furnishing trade delegates moving to suspend the starting orders in order to discuss the exx>ulsion of the Seamen’s Union from the Congress and urging the transport workers to organise the seamen on the trade union basis. ■Mr. Pollitt, in seconding, said that if the question was not discussed the 'Congress would be stigmatised as a futility. Mr. Citrine pointed out that the disputes committee of the Congress had arranged to deal with the differences of the miners and seamen to ensure for Mr. Havelock Wilson a fair hearing. After a. lively debate flic motion was rejected by 91 votes to 63. The minority delegates issued a statement characterising the decision to break with Russia as a crime against the workers of the world, equalled only by the betrayal of three million British workers during the general strike. It appeals to the workers to re-establish the Anglo-Russian committee.

RUSSIAN COMMENT ON T.U.C. DECISION. MOSCOW, Sept. 9. “The Trade Union Congress only carried out Sir Austen Chamberlain ’s orders,” says the newspaper “Pravda, ” in commenting on the decision of the Congress. “It is a sample of Socialist Imperialism helping British Imperialists to prepare for Avar against the S'OA'iot. It is one more step in the campaign begun in -May by the British Ministry.