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SNUB FOR COMMUNIST Trade Unions Congress Not Fond of Soviet. Ideas BRITISH DELEGATES’ MISTAKE. (By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright.) Received August 8, 8 p.m. (A.&N.Z.) PARIS, Aug. 8. The Congress of International Trade Unions ended with the extraordinary discomfiture of the British delegation. Mr. E. Purcell, the president, early in the proceedings aroused intense irritation by a speech defending the Russian Soviet and paying a tribute to the boundless courage of the Russian workers in the teeth of the opposition of the world’s capitalists, adding that the conquests of the Russian revolution must be defended. The French and other delegates thereupon decided that Mr. Purcell should not be re-elected on the executive committee, and instead nominated Mr. Hicks as the British member. Mr. Hicks was elected, Mr. Purcell securing only one vote. M. Jouhaux (France) was elected President and at the closing proceedings he urged the British delegation to return with a saner- comprehension of their interests.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19914, 9 August 1927, Page 7
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158MISPLACED PRAISE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19914, 9 August 1927, Page 7
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