TO NATIONALISE THE MINES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 298, 12 September 1919, Page 7

TO NATIONALISE THE MINES

TRADE UNION CONGRESS DECISION

PLEDGE TO ENFORCE STATE OWNERSHIP By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, September 10. It is understood tlint feeling in the Trade Union Congress regarding direct action wffil bo tested on an explicit resolution. Yesterday's decision referring tho report back was intended to mark the protect of tho delegates against the Parliamentary Committee's failure to aft'ord the amp'.est opportunity for discussion of tho question.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (Hoc. September 11, 5.5 p.m.) London, September 10. The ', Trade Union Congress at Glasgow, by 4,478,000 votes to 77,000, carried Mr. Eoberfc Smillie's resolution pledging Congress to co-operate with the Miners' Federation in compelling the Govern-, mont to adoot the nationalisation of mines..—Aus.-XZ. Cable Assn. ■ POLICE STRIKE DISCUSSED. London, September 10. Thero was an animated discussion at (he Trade Union Congress in Glasgow on tho Police Union delegates complaining, that the Parliamentary Committee had failed to support the police strikers. Mr. Sexton, M.P., declared that Mr. Marston, secretary of the union, was responsible for the union's defeat. After heated passages police delegates, withdrew their motion.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.