LABOUR SPLIT.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19155, 11 November 1927, Page 5

LABOUR SPLIT.

DISAFFECTION OF SEAMEN/S UNION. » (by cable—press association-—coptbight.) (australian and n.z. ind sun cable.) LONDON, November 9. The Seamen's Union delegates unanimously endorsed the reply to the demand of the Trades Union Congress Disputes Committee, that it should disclaim its intention to support the non-politi-cal Miners' Union within a fortnight.

The reply declared that the dispute between the MineTs' Federation and the Seamen's Union was farcical because J;he hands of the Trades Union Congress were already stained, as prominent Trades Union Congress officials •had been acting in collusion with the Communists for the purpose of injuring the Seamen's Union, because the latter was unwilling to subscribe to the vapourings of some of the Labour leaders and trades union "wild men." Notable among these was Mr A. J. ''o-i!;. whose activities the Trades Uni< ' digress had not endeavoured to n -ii'spite his repeated attacks on tin- .men's Union-

The reply further declared that the Miners' Federation and the Trades Union Congress had acted in a collusive and conniving manner against the union, when it financed three rebellious officials of the union to enable them to start a High Court action.

Mr Cotter and two others were anxious to enter Parliament, and conferred with the Miners' Federation, and later with Messrs Citrine, Cook, Smith, and others during the Edinburgh Conference. Messrs Cook and Smith were promised £4OO, and Mr Cotter wanted £IOOO. Mr Smith appealed to the Trades Union Congress, therefore an impartial enquiry was impossible.