TRADE UNION CONGRESS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19270, 6 September 1924, Page 9

TRADE UNION CONGRESS

THE AIMS OF LABOUR. VIEWS OF DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 4. The Trade Union Congress passed a resolution in favour ,of pensions for widows and mothers in cases where the family bread-winner was incapacitated. The foreign delegates addressed t jj e American Federation of Labour, said that they believed im international kinship, because trade unions were the only substantial bulwarks against despotisms like a d Bolshevism; but it was impossible for tee American Federation to participate in an international federation of trade unions which by the vote of a few individuals could commit them to a policy completely at variance with their ideas. Mr M'Clelland (Canada) said, that tee workers of Canada were troubled by the question of immigration. Last 133,0u0 immigrants entered, . but. 185,000 cft Canada to find a living m the United Tomsky (Russia) said that the Labour movement all over the world was realising the necessity for greater concentration and centralisation to meet the wowing internationalisation of capital. The vanquished of the Great War were the workers of the world, and the victors were a small group of profiteers m each country. The iron hand of world capitalism was now seizing the starving German proletariat by the throat. The Dawes plan was only a new scheme for exploitation, which would result m increased trade competition. The, Buasiß-n WOTkera desired to co-operate in thl fight against the common enemy—exploitation.—Keur ter. ■ LABOUR AND WORLD PEACR EUROPEAN COALITION DESIRED. LONDON, September 0. (Received Sept. 5, at 8 p.m.) Th e Trades Union- Congress agreed to, vniarnci the General Council ’through the International Federation of Trades Unions to take all possible steps to bring together the different elements of th£Labour movement in Europe in an effffort to i(cgtabli:4h solidarity making for world peace. The president said that communications had been received from France, Italy, and Germany showing that the Continental nations were looking for a lead to Britain where unity was most firmly e-tehlished.' Therefore, it seemed incuinl. : on the British movement to take steps to consummate this desire and thus fulfil its great destiny.—Reuter.