DEMANDS OF LABOUR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17255, 3 September 1919, Page 7

DEMANDS OF LABOUR.

TRADES UNION CONGRESS.

NATIONALISATION ISSUE.

LAND, RAILWAYS, AND MINES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 10.30 p-m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON, Sept. 2. Nationalisation bulks largely in the agenda of the Trades Union Congress, which is to be held in Glasgow on September 8. Apart from the annual resolution in favour of the nationalisation of the means of production, distribution, and exchange, the Parliamentary Committee is to submit a report on the Coal Commission's findings and the Government's decisions thereon. The Agricultural Labourers' Union demands a national campaign or other necessary action to secure nationalisation of the land. The railway clerks demand the nationalisation of the railways and all other means of transport. The locomotive engineers are submitting a comprehensive motion for the nationalisation of land, railways, and mines. ! The shipbuilders and shipwrights want the nationalisation of shipping and shipbuilding.

INCREASE OF PRODUCTION

REAL LEAD WANTED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 2. Mr. C. W. Bowerman, Parliamentary secretary to the Trades j Union Congress, has announced his intention to lay the letter of Mr. Brownlie, urging increased production, before the Trades Union Congress. Ho will ask the leaders to give a real lead in regard to the necessity for increased production. Mr. G. N. Barnes, Pensions Minister, in a speech at Walworth, said the lop-sided organisations, governed only by materialistic and sectional considerations, were likely to ' result in rival organisations getting . a strangle-hold on the community, . by which everyone, including members of such organisations themselves, would suffer. He added that , rancour and ill-will could not cure I present-day evils. Mr. Brownlie, chairman of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, wrote to Mr. G. Vv. Bowerman, Parliamentary Secretary of the. Trade Union Congress, drawing attention to the grave national situation, and stating that only increased production could avert chaos. Trade unionists could not evade their responsibilities to the community. The Labour leaders roust endeavour to alleviate the situation. Merely increasing wages without increas--1 ii:g production would not serve.