BRITISH LABOR

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18179, 29 August 1933, Page 5

BRITISH LABOR

T.U.C. CONGRESS ISSUE BETTER WAGES CAMPAIGN LONDON, August 28. The Daily Express says that a nationwide campaign for better wages will be a critical issue at the Trade Union Congress at Brighton next week. Two million workers, who bore their share of the depression, are demanding a share in the proceeds of industrial revival. .The repercussions of Mr. Roosevelt’s experiment are .spreadings to Britain, A second battle of Hastings will be fought during the first week in September, when the Trades Union Congress " will meet at that town to decide whether the industrial or the political faction is to control the Labor movement, and what is to be done about Fascism. On the agenda, resolutions in the name of the general council call for a united trade union, Labor, and co-operative front against all forms of dictatorship at home and abroad, and in the movement and outside ii It is intended that this front .shall be not merely defensive, but positive in its drive towards a society very different from that existing to-day. It. is plainthat the world's attitude towards a socialist dictatorship, and particularly the excesses of the Hitler regime, have seriously alarmed organised Labor, which is not altogether easy as regards the' aspirations of some of its own leaders, including Sir Patrick Hastings, K. 0., a. former Attorney-General, who hanker after a kind of proletarian dictatorship* GERMAN BOYCOTT SUGGESTED. One resolution demands an emphatic condemnation of the Nazi rule, “which is a hindrance to disarmament and a source of discord between the nations.” It will urge the closest possible affiance of the Unions, the Labor Party, and the co-operative movements, based on fundar mental principles of freedom and democracy, and call on all members of these organisations to solidify their ranks against the forces of reaction and disruption. In a report on dictatorship and democratic freedom, prepared by the general * secretary of the Trades Union Congress, Mr. W. L. Citrine, it is stated that the international trade union movement sustained a severe setback by the seizure of power by Herr Hitler in Germany, where unionism has been practically stamped out. As some measure of retaliation the Trades Union Congress suggests a boycott of German goods ana services, and exhorts all democrat*' to answer the call as the only means of dealing a, Iflow "at -tyranny v arid- oppression. It is realised, however, that it is one thing to advise a boycott and another to enforce it in a Country like Britain, where the industrial classes habitually buy according to price.— Sydney Morning Herald.