T.U.C. AND MOSCOW

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19840, 14 May 1927, Page 7

T.U.C. AND MOSCOW

DELEGATION’S RETURN SOVIET’S POLICY. LONDON, April 20. The conference between representatives of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress annlj of the All Russian trade-union movement is over, and the British representatives have returned to London, with an important report for the next sitting of the General Council. Some of the colleagues of the delegates—Mr George Hicks, president of the Trades Union Congress, and Mr W. M. Citrine, the secretary—are very anxious to learn the result of the discussion with Tomsky and his Soviet companions as to Communist intervention in the domestic affairs of this country. Great importance is attached to this point, for, if Moscow continues the policy of free license anidj heavy endowment for certain Communist activities within the Labour movement of this country, a break with Moscow seems inevitable.

Mr Ramsay MacDonald, M.P., has expressed objection in Parliament against Soviet intervention in British domestic affairs, and on the industrial side practically every trade-union leader is enduring the sniping of the Minority Movement. By those means Moscow has alienated much of the former sympathy of the British movement, and the price of agreement as to future activity will be the cancellation by Moscow of the many well-financed disruptive elements officered, by irresponsible people in this country. American Labour has stamped it out, with beneficial effects upon industry and wages, and the lesson has not been lost in this country.