TRADES UNION CONGRESS
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)
(Rec. Sept. 7, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 6.
The Trades Union Congress rejected the Committee's recommendation to join the International Trade Union Conference and simultaneously the Peace Conference in order to advise diplomats concerning Labour's views of the peace terms.
It was disclosed that German Trade Unionists informed the conveners that it was impossible to attend because they were under Government absolutism, which it was hoped to alter after the war.
Several Ciiigressmen declared they would not tolerate further truck with. German internationalists.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 7 September 1916, Page 5
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