BRITISH TRADE UNIONS

Evening Star, Issue 19659, 12 September 1927, Page 7

BRITISH TRADE UNIONS

THE ANNUAL CONGRESS EXPULSION OF SEAMEN A LIVELY DEBATE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 10. The even toner of the Trades Union Congress was disturbed by the' furnishing trade delegates moving to suspend tho standing orders and discuss the expulsion of tho seamen’s unions from tho congress, urging tho transport workers to organise on the Seamen’s Trade Union basis. Mr Pollit, in seconding the motion, said that if the question was not discussed the congress would bo stigmatised as futile, Mr Citrino pointed out that tho Disputes Committee of the congress had arranged to deal with differences._ After a lively debate tho motion was rejected by 91 votes to G. 3. The minority delegates issued a statement characterising tho decision to break with Russia as a crime against the workers of tho world, equalled only by the betrayal of throe million British workers in the general strike. They appealed to workers to re-estab-lish the Anglo-lluesian Committee.

ANXIOUS FOR X’EACE.

ANOTHER WIN FOR MODERATES

LONDON, September 10. There was an uproar at tho Trades Union Congress during the debate on the resolution on behalf of the Furnishing Trade’s Association, condemning the leaders for participating in industrial peace propaganda, and declaring that their business is to organise the workers for a struggle against capitalists.

Messrs Smillie and Cook indulged iu passages about running with the hare and hunting with the hounds. The moderates again gained tho ascendancy, and tho resolution was shelved, Mr Ben Turner declaring that the whole industrial class was anxious for peace. THE BREAK WITH RUSSIA. MOSCOW REDS WRATHFUL. LONDON, September 10. Tho Riga correspondent of ‘ The Times ’ says that the Trades Union Congress’s dissolution of the, Anglo-llussian Committee has deeply impressed Moscow Reds, who are pouring tho vials of their wrath on the “ British traitors.” “ M. Dogadotf denounces the ‘ functionaries assembled to fulfil Mr Baldwin’s behests.’ Nevertheless,” he says, “ wp will devise a means of keeping in close contact with British workers without these servants of black reaction. Then British workers will throw tho Purcells. Hickses, and Thomases into tho cesspool, and put real revolutionaries in their place.” M. Lozovsky says: “The decision was cut and dried. It was not by chance. ' The congress’s aggressiveness coincided with Britain’s diplomatic rupture. Only the so-called leaders, are traitors. A referendum would have shown" that the heart of British! labor really beats for union with Moscow.” —‘ The Times.’