TRADE UNIONS CONGRESS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1924, Page 3

TRADE UNIONS CONGRESS

DELEGATES’ Y 1 KM'S. [ 11BUT HII H 'fl: L I'.l 1. 1A >1 s. J (Received this day at 11.-o a.m.) LONDON, September *l. Tho Trade Unions Cungie.ss passed a resolution in favour of pensions for widows and mothers whose tamily bread winner was in:ufauitated. Foreign delegats addressed the Congress. lirmly of the American Federation of Labour said they believed in international kinship, liecaiise trade unions were the only substantial bulwarks luminst despotisms like Kaiserism and Bolshevism, hut it was impossible for the American Federation to |nrti. pate in an international Federation el Trade Unions which, by the vote of a few individuals could commit them to a policy completely at variance with their ideas.

Mil.clhind (C'iinailii) said tin- workers of Ciuimln were troubled by the quc.slion of iin in itrrsi t-ion, ns 133 thousand entered last year hut thousands have left Canada to find a living in the United. States.

Tom.sky said the l.iihour movement all over the world was realising the necessity for greater coneeiitriition and ecntralisiition to meet the growing internatioualisatioi' of capital. 'I he vanguished of the Groat War were the workers of the world and the victors were the small groups of profiteers ii eac.li country. The iron hand of world lapitalism was now seizing the starving German proletariat at the throat, ing German proletariat by the throat, scheme for exploitation, which would result in an increased trade competition. Itnssian workers desired to operate in the light against the common enemy of exploitation.