TRADE UNION CONGRESS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 3, 12 September 1927, Page 5

TRADE UNION CONGRESS

MODERATES AGAIN WIN. FURTHER RUSSIAN OUTBURSTS. Press Association —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. LONDON, September 11. There was an uproar at the Trade Union Congress during the delude on the resolution on behalf of the Furnishing Trades’ Association condemning the leaders for participating in industrial peace propaganda, and declaring that their business is to organise the worker s for the struggle against the capitalists. Messrs Smillie and Cook indulged in pasages running with the hare and hunting with the hounds. The moderates again gained the ascendancy and the resolution was shelved, Mr Ben Turner declaring that the whole industrial class was anxious for peace. The Riga correspondent of The Times says the Trade Union Congress’ dissolution of the Anglo-Rus-sian Committee has deeply impressed the Moscow Reds, who are pouring the vials of wrath on the “British traitors.’’ M. Dogadoff denounces the “functionaries assembled to fullil Mr Baldwin’s behests. Nevertheless we will devise means of keeping close contact with the British workers without those servants of black reaction. Then the British workers will throw the Purcells, Hiclyses, and Thomases into the cesspool and put real revolutionaries in their places.” The Daily New s says; “The decision makes it finally plain for all, whether at Moscow or near home, that the ordinary British working man has not the slightest intention of working for a revolution in this country on the Russian model, if for no other reason than because he knows well enough that lie would himself he involved in the ruin that would follow. This clears the road for some constructive reform in which the political activities of Labour ought to be a powerful and effective agent. The decision stamps (Labour definitely as a constitutional force.”