TRADE UNION CONGRESS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 4 September 1924, Page 9

TRADE UNION CONGRESS.

PROCEEDINGS IN LONDON. BE CABLE—PRESS ASSbCIATIbN—COPYRIGHT. Rbceiyed Sbpt. 4, • 11.15 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 3. The Trade Union Congress rejected the recommendation of the’ General Purposes Committee in favour of allowing an emergency resolution to be submitted instructing the general council to work for the convening of an intez’national conference of all trade union organisations and to take steps to bring about the unity of the international trade union’ movement and bring the organised workers of the world under an international fighting leadership. The president said that the resolution if accepted would probably do less than had v already been dope in certain respects. The general council had_ already agreed that the Amsterdam International should invite Russian trade union representatives to a conference for the purpose of endeavouring to remove existing difficulties.

Congress adopted the workers’ charter, which provides for the nationalisation of land, mines, railways, and a 44hours’ week, with a minimum wage in each industry ; also adequate, provision for unemployment, adequate housing, full educational ’facilities, and pensions for all at 60. There was a remarkable; scene when the president introduced American, Canadian, and Russian fraternal delegates. When the Russian delegates, headed by’M; Tomsfey, chhirman of the All-Russian Council, came to the platforin, the. delegates, rose: and cheered for minufes. —Reuter.