GERMAN TRADE UNIONS BARRED

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2871, 8 September 1916, Page 5

GERMAN TRADE UNIONS BARRED

THE BRITISH WORKMAN'S STAND. ("The TiimA")

v London, September 6Tlie Trades Union Congress rejected a committee's recommendation to join an International Trade Union Conference simultaneously with the Peace Conference in order to advise diplomats concerning the view of Labour on peace terms. It was disclosed that German trade unionists had informed the conveners that it would he impossible for them to attend, because they were under Government absolutism, which they hoped to alter after the war. Several members of tlio Congress declared that they would not tolerate further truck with German Internationalists. TRADE AND LABOUR QUESTIONS. (Rec. September 7, 5.20 p.m.) London, September 6. At the Trade Union Congress, a resolution protesting* against attempts to capture the trade union movement for a change in fiscal policy, with Protection as the main objective, was carried by 1,739,000 votes against 500,000 votes, after an amendment had been added urging a restriction on the importation of cheap manufactured goods produced under worse labour conditions than in Britain. A resolution was carried insisting on the Government making provision for the employment of men on demobilisation, and also that there should be no reduction in the present wages, or any increase in the working hours. MEANS TO AN END. (Rec. September 8, 0.5 a.m.) ! London, September 7. The Trade Union Congress resolved that our industrial, economic, and social interests would best be preserved by tho expansion of the educational system, the abolition ot sweating, better housing, and tho destruction of monopolies.