LABOUR EXTREMISTS.
AIM FOR ONE BIG UNION. DIFFICULT DAYS AHEAD. [By Electric Cable —Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Momlav, 32.35 a.m.) LONDON. May 29. Tho fusion of the great British trade unions, similar to the Triple Alliance, is proceeding. A National Union of General Workers, tho Dockers’ Union, and Carters’ Union has boon formed. This organisation, with a membership only exceeded by the triple alliance movement, is connected Avith a scheme for including tho textile unions, under which the extremists hope to be able to force the nationalisation of all land, minerals, mines, royalties and railAvays. On the contrary, the extremists suffered a set-back yesterday Avhen the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress definitely refused to call a national Labour conference to consider the schemes. Messrs. Smillie and Robert Williams are for a wholesale industrial strike to enforce their pacifist aims, including the abolition of compulsory service, and the withdrawal of British troops from Russia.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 14136, 9 June 1919, Page 5
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