ALL-BRITISH CONGRESS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 650, 29 October 1909, Page 3

ALL-BRITISH CONGRESS.

Sir,-Tho unionists of this country will bo pleased to learn that the Trades and . Labour Councils of. New Zealand in conference at present, sitting in Wellington, have endorsed tho holding of tho All-British Socialist and Labour Congress next year in London. Also that the conference has decided that Mr; j' Thome should be New Zealand's tlve .at that congress,'despite the feeblo pro. test of lit. NaugEton that Mr. Thome dl 4 not

represent the views of all trades councils. Now, sir, I would like to know, and-so would a lot more workers, what; trades council's' views ur r, n - aug "' on represents on'this conference in Wellington. To my mind ho represents no eoiuicil, fox I cannot recollect him ever being elected a dolegato' to the conference bv the Wellington Trades and ' Labour. Council, of which Dody.ho is a member. The position is very peculiar when you think it over, and I have been a regular attendant at every Trades Council meeting in Wellington for tho past year. I regret the attitude taken up by Mr. Nanghton when he says Mr. Thome's appointment was undemocratic, he being appointed without any election whatever. Of couree, Mr. Naughton's idea of Mr. Naughton's position on the > conference is that he is on the conference, and placed thero in the most democratic way. Not by tbi9 country's democratic way, or any other country's democratic Way, but by a peculiar democratic way the Trades and Labour Council of Wellington have of doing business. I often wonder why people who liye in glass houses throw stones.—l am, i ' E.KENNEDY. October 27.