TRADES UNION CONGRESS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 922, 15 September 1910, Page 5

TRADES UNION CONGRESS.

AMALGAMATION AND ORGANISA- , TION. '."WHITE.SLAVES IN ENGLAND." . '(Eeo. September 14, 10.10 p.m.) London, September 14. , At the Trades Union Congress the Stevedores' Leagues' proposal to amalgamate the Congress with the General Federation and the Labour party was negatived by. a small majority. Mr. D. J.. Shackleton remarked, that the distinctive trade union element, had proved a decided advantage in approaching successive Governments, apart alto-,, gather from the political Labour party organisation; (Cheers.) : The Parliamentary Committee would .otherwise always be fighting, the Government of the day.; Mr. Tillett's resolution to ascertain the opinion of the affiliated unions regarding the "practicability of determining all industrial agreements by a given date for each year was carried by 1,055,000 votes to 445,000.; ■ ' ■ A-resolutiou directing the.; Parliamentary Committee to. ascertain the views of all trade unions and make a recommendation to next , Congress concerning a scheme for amalgamating by industries all'existing'unions; with a central executive elected by' the combined, unions, and empowered to act unitedly whenever a strike or lock-out occurred in,any. indus-: try, was carried by 1,175,000 votes : to 256,000.',.- ',; ; ,: ,; . : . ■:.'. .The appearance, on the' platform ■' of three-.women connected.: with tho chairmakers' strike, at, Cradley Heath-enlisted warm sympathy. Mr, Ha'slam,. the; mem-ber-for Derbyshire, in describing the poorwhite , slaves. in. England, said'. a collection would be taken at, the door, and the' unions were urged to contribute. .■ ' ; : THE OSBORNE JUDGMENT!, ' | DIFFEEENCE OF, OPINION^...'. , I '<■ 'London, September ID." '■ At the Trades,. Unions- Congress ..-Mft. ■Morris, the bricklayers'; delegate', - protested against the Osborne judgment: occupying so much time.'..Ho believed a vast majority of the ..trades union favoured the judgment; ;., ■',-.. Tho statement was received, with • loud ories.of fr No!" and ,'Tes!" , : Delegates-protested against the Salvation Army labour homes under-selling joiners. , , :" ■'•-. •Mr. Stokes, the'glnssblowers' represofl-' tative, said he ■-.'feared ■ the - Territorials might bo ordered to intorvono'in trade disputes..-'' . „..'_,,:'.'.'. v '-~'•■'' .'■■'.-.-' •'■'•-•i! - ■'•;;' : 'Mrr''Ben Tillett-said'/Mr. . Haldano (Secretary of State for War)-would gladly use the Territorials as regulars,' but Labour must accept his, assurances, for, ..a time.'. . '-, \ , Mr. D: J. Shackleton, Labour M.P. for the Clitheroe Division of Lancashiro, said that i£sooo was still, required in'connection with the expenses of the . ■Osborne"siiit. This, .would necessitate; a ; --.-special' levy .on members of tin unions. . ' .The Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress reports ■ that tho* Osborne caso has furnished 'one"of-those periodical attacks which Labour is acous- 1 tomed. to receive from those whose duty it is to hdld the scales of justice, evenly. "It is," adds the > report, "an' .undisguised attack on a hitherto' unohallenged right." • '; ■ ■ ■ ■/,'_■ '-■;!