BRITISH INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 134, 1 March 1919, Page 7

BRITISH INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE

OPENED IN LONDON. THE UNEMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT By Telegrnph-Preas Association- Oopyrljhl London, February 27. The Industrial Conference, attended by eiifht hundred delegates, representing-leu millions employees and workers has been opened. Sir -It. S. Home (Minister of Labour), who 'presided, announced that tho unemployment donation had been extended for another thirteen weeks, but had. been reduced to 20s. for men and 15s. for wom<gi. Mr. Will. Appleton fsecrelary. of the Federation of Trade Unions) . said that the federation's reserve of ,£265,000 ought i to be sufficient to meet all well-directed schemes to secure improvements in wages and hours, but the present tendency to rush strikes would endanger funds much larger than the' federation possesses. The Management' Committee was gravely concerned over strikes which wero engineered for political purposes. Nothing can so surelv proinoto future unemployment ■as the destruction-of confidence at the present moment. The committee promised the fullest support to the executive which manage their unions in accordance with the rules and not in accordance with the demands of 6elfish or ■ excited partisans. The conference has appointed a committee to consider wages, hours, unemployment, find co-operation betweon Capital and Labour, to report to a further conference on April s.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn ; : ■ • pro-bolshemlder paper ' FOR AUSTRALIAN LABOUR CONFERENCE. ' Melbourne.- February 28, The agenda paper of the Labour Conference, to lie held in April, asks the conference to express sympathy with the Russian Bolsheviki in emancipating Russian'masses and to record its admiration of the Spartacus Party in Germany. A further , motion asks that no articles relating to or extolling wars or battles oi' the lioroes of past wars shall be printed -in State school papers, at\jl that peace ideals shall be inculcated m the schools.—Press Assji.