TRADE UNION CONGRESS.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1919, Page 5

TRADE UNION CONGRESS.

LEVY ON WEALTH SUGGESTED. By Telegraph.—Press Aisn.—Copyright. London, Sept. 13. The Trade Union Congress resolved in favor of direct taxation of land values in the next Budget, and also advocated the nationalisation of banking. It was resolved t« make iv determined effort to force, all non-unionists to join unions, and also to instruct the Parliamentary Committee to approach the Labor executives with a view of establishing a real industrial Parliament of Labor, whereby the trade unions might adopt a common policy on all questions of national and international importance. A resolution favoring the amalgamation of all trades into one big union was defeated.

The Congress also resolved in favor of a levy on wealth and capital to pay the war debt, and unanimously reaffirmed the resolution that. self-determination, not military rule; was the real means by which the destiny of Ireland might be worked out.

London, Sept. 13. It is pointed out that 11 out of 10 members of'the new Parliament Committee of the Trade Union Congress were resolutely opposed to direct action on the old committee.

The correspondent of the Daily Chronicle states that Mr. Smillie and other miners have been pulling the strings for a week, and are chagrined at the failure of their nominees, Messrs Onions and Fred Hall, M.P. The latter became a candidate instead of Mr. Greenall, who retired. Resentment against the miners affected the other elections of miners' candidates, the American and Canadian delegation suffering defeat.