WORKERS AND THE WAR OUTLOOK

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3182, 5 September 1917, Page 5

WORKERS AND THE WAR OUTLOOK

TRADES UNION CONGRESS • J ■-' •! ALLIES' AIMS ENDORSED 1 . ";J (Itec. September i, 7.25 p.m ) -'<\ ■ London, September. 3. > At the Trades Union Cougrcsß at Black-" 1 pool, Mr. Hill, of the Boilermakers' j Union, in his presidential address, said. ■• that tho evidence given before the recent ' j Industrial Commission showed that the existing labour unreat was duo to the .'■,: Government breaking its pledges as re- ■■, garded industrial conscription by compelling men to accept unfair conditions under the fear of enlistment. The work- ■ ers wore convinced that the high prices 1 wero duo to unchecked gambling by (he ' 1 middlemen. Still the workers were agreed - - j that Belgium, Poiaud, Alsace, and the . j. 'i'rontino must all .be.assured full justice. i] Ho asked: "Can this bo accomplished by ... -.j military efforts?" Already nine million ■■■■■■; men had been killed. He condemned the .'' | denial of tho right of the Allied democ- . | racy to meet tho peoples of all countries' '• in tho propagation of the establishment : . J of a world democracy, and concluded 1 by affirming that the "trades unions en- j • dorsed tho declared aims o£.the Allies.- j The Congress' recommended that at> j tempts should be made to securo an agree-') i ment amongst the working classes of ' ] the Allied countries as a. fundamental ; j condition to' a successful' international : ; conference. ~..-:. •. V, ' ' A committee was appointed to con- j sider tho question of the Stockholm Con- ■• i'erence.—Renter. - j