TRADES UNION CONGRESS

Evening Star, Issue 19658, 10 September 1927, Page 9

TRADES UNION CONGRESS

THE BREAK WITH RUSSIA BRISTOL PRESS COMMENT. (Official British News.)' Press Association—By Wireless—Copyright* RUGBY, September 9. (Received September 10, at noon.) Commenting on yesterday’s decision by the British Trades Union Congress to break off negotiations with the Russian trades unions, the ‘ Daily Herald,’ the Labor journal, says that it was taken because of the lack of harmony of tho Russian leaders with the methods and traditions of the British trades union movement. “ The relations which have been suspended can be resumed when the Russians care to, provided‘only that they accept and act upon tho conditions which have been laid down and agreed by themselves. Those conditions are that the AngloRussian Committee is not ah international one. Both sides should have the power to conduct the internal affairs of their own movements in their own way, and that promises and agreements are made to be kept and not broken.” ‘The Times’ says: “British trade union policies will no doubt be for an honest breach with the men who profess principles and avow methods that are antagonistic to tho traditional policies of British trade unionism.” Tho ‘Daily News’ says: “Tho decision makes it finally plain .for all, whether at Moscow or near Home, that the ordinary British working man has nob the slightest intention of working for a revolution in this country on the Russian model, if lor no other reason than because ho knows well enough that ho would himself bo involved in the ruin that would follow. This clears tho road for some constructive reforms in which the political activities of Labor ought to be a powerful and effective agent. The decision stamps Labor definitely as a constitutional lorce. -