TRADES UNION CONGRESS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 225, 5 September 1928, Page 5

TRADES UNION CONGRESS

ANTI-COMMUNIST RESOLUTION, EXPENDITURE ON DRINK AND GAMBLING. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 5, 11.15 a.m.) Rugby, Sept. 4. A feature of to-day's proceedings of the annual conference of th* Trades Union Congress was the adoption by an overwhelming majority of a resolution moved by the Railway, Clerks Association instructing the General Council to take steps to purge tho Trade Union movement of tho Communist element. T.U.C. AND SEAMEN. (Australian and N.Z Preu Assn.l London, Sept. 8. Mr Ben Turner, concluding his address at the annual Trade Union Congress at Swansea deplored the amount of time and money spent in gambling and drink, which amounted to at least £600,000,000 a year in addition to wastage of mind and manhood. Miss Margaret Bondfield supporting the proposal for the expulsion of the National Union of Seamen, pointed out that tho seamed admitted encouraging and assisting the formation and development of the Miners' Nonpolitical Union, which the Trades Union Council regarded as a breakaway from the union. Mr Jack Jones, attempting to oppose the resolution, was shouted down. Mr Turner said that troublous de* bate ,wa ß unnecessary. The delegates were virtually decided that some action was necessary. The seamen had already withdrawn from membership. The Congress curried th* proposal with one dissentient. Mr J. R. Clynes declared that the Government was never more untrustworthy, untruthful and callous than regarding unemployment. Mr Baldwin’s pitiful appeal to employers was contemptible. " INDUSTRIAL PEACE. According to the “Daily Herald,” t’ ere is a general feeling that tha oral council’s action in co-operai ing with the employers in the estab Bailment of a scheme for maintaining iiustnal peace will be approved by a substantial majority .and that th “decision of the congress will ma. a definite and historic turning point in trade union development”