DIRECT ACTION

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 301, 16 September 1919, Page 5

DIRECT ACTION

OPPOSITION AT TRADE UNION CONGRESS FEELING AGAINST THE MINERS By Telegraph-Press Aesociatiou-Copyright London, September 13. It is pointed out that eleven out of sixteen members of the new Parliament Committee of the Trade Union Congress were resolutely opposed to direct action on the old committee.

The "Daily Chronicle" correspondent states that Mr. Smillh and other miners had been pulling strii-gs for a week, and are ■ chagrined at. tin failure of their nominees, Mr. Onions and Mr. l'red. Hall, M.P. The latter became a candidate instead of Mr. Greenall, who reared. Resentment against the miners ailectea the other elections, and the miners candidates for the American. and Canadian delegation suffered defeat.—Aus.-A./i. Cable Assn.

OTHER QUESTIONS. London, September 13. The Trade Union Congress passed motions in favour of direct taxation on land values in the next Budget, nationalisation of banking, and for. a determined effort to force ail non-unionists to join unions. A motion was also passed instructing the Parliamentary Commntee to approach the Labour executives with the view to establishing a real industrial Parliament oi Labour, through, which trade unions could adopt a common policy on all questions of national and international importance. A motion favouring amalgamation ot all trades into a ono big union was defeated. . „ . . Congress also decided in favour of a lew on wealth, capital to pay the war debt and also unanimously reaffirmed its opinion that self-determination and not military rule was the real means by which the destiny of Ireland could be worked out.-Reuter.