TRADE UNIOCONGRESS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2565, 13 September 1915, Page 5

TRADE UNIOCONGRESS

I THE NATION DEMANDED THEJ I . BEST ' MR. RAMSAY MAODONALD'S SPEECH. By Talegraph-Prsss Assoclation-Copyrighti London, September 10. The Trade Union Congress protested against the rise in , the cost of living, duq. to private speculation, and urged the Government to control the supplies of necessaries and appoint a committee, including Labour representatives,, to, fix retail prices. : It was urged that women, employed in war 'service should join the trade unions,' and ,demand equal pay for equal work.' • .■■■,, Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, M.P,, conveyed to the.Congress fraternal greet-, iugs oh. behalf of the Labour Party. He said they t wore all agreed that it was every citizen's duty to uphold the national honour, i At tie present moment the nation demanded tlio best thoy could do; He concluded by appealing to 'tho congress to regard any; pr.esent difference as morely ..transitory, 'loading to greater .mutual respefct and loyalty! >' : v . ! The congress urged that women displaced after the war should bo guaran« teed employment. . It decided immediately to invest*.: gate Mr. Lloyd George's charges of slackness. , .. •

! . INTRIGUES REPUDIATED J DISLOYAL TO WORKERS AMD THE :: NATION.. t'UmU" and Srditey "Sun" Sertices.i (Roc. September 11, 6.5 p.m.) . London, September 10. Mr. J. Hodge, -MiP., presiding at a meeting of Socialists at the National • Defence Committee in Bristol, referred to tlie intrigues of the pacificists and regretted the action of Mr. Ramsay Macdonald and others, which, if continued, tlio trado unionists, ho declaim ed, must clear them out from th'o Labour Party.,,.. ..; ... A .resolution was passed repudiating the'intrigues, which were disloyal alike ' to tho workers and the nation.