LABOR MOVEMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 27 January 1925, Page 2

LABOR MOVEMENT

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION LONDON, January 25. At the Minority International Labour Conference it was arranged to inaturo a demonstration in favour of the fusion of the Moscow and the Amsterdam 'internationals, (in connection with which a resolution was carried welcoming the world-wide tendency towards unity under one banner, and one trade union international. Tlie conference is being attended by tho representatives of Cezclioslovakia, Germany, France, India, the United States and Ireland. Air Tom Ahum testified to the progress the Labour Alovemeut was making. Other speakers condemned the trade union leaders’ moderation, and advocated the more militant use of the trade unions. The meeting resolved ill favour of breaking with the policy ot class peace, and tho League of Nations, and in favour of the creation of international leadership in the working class battle against the capitalists. Another resolution affirmed the solidarity of the trade union movements in tlie British Empire, and repudiated the Imperialist policy of the so-called Labour Government towards India, Egypt and other subject nations.

TRIBUTE TO LENIN. LONDON, January 25. A large portrait of Lenin, draped with red and black, was prominently placed on the front of the platform of the Conference of the National Aliuority Alovemeut, held in the Battersea Town Hall this afternoon. It was attended hv six hundred delegates, representing 43 of the trade, unions in a number of the provincial centres. The sitting was held, despite a strong garlic-like smell, due to chemical carbvlamine, with which tho hall had been sprinkled earlier by British Fascist)', and the stench from which was so strong during the morning that the officials of the movement were unable to enter the hall. After the singing of the “International,” Air Tom Al ami, who presided, in the absence of Air A. J. Cook, seerctarv of the Miners’ Federation, asked the delegates to pay a meed of praise and reverence to Lenin, whereupon the delegates stood in silence, while the Funeral .March was being played.

OUTRAGE AT CONFERENCE HALL. LONDON, January 2(1. A Town Hall official at Battersea, told the “Daily Herald” that three men arrived at 0.30 o’clock in the morning, and sought permission to look around, representing themselves as .Minority Labour Alovemeut officials. They suddenly spilled the contents of a bottle on the floor, and then lei t hurriedly. On many of tho walls and pavements hear the .Hull "'as chalked the slogan; “Join the Fascist!. To Hell with the Communists.”

A PROTEST. LONDON, January 25. Speaking at Newh, in Glamorganshire, Air A. Fenner Brockway, the secretary of the Independent Labour Party, protested against the exclusion of tho press and the public from eeitain sittings of the Food Commission, lie said that he was unable to understand why they should meet privately when investigating the secrets of profiteering. He regretted that the traders in foodstuffs were not being examined as strictly as were the coal owners by the Sankcy Commission. Air Broekwav deplored the fact that oll e of the two Labour representatives was absent in Canada during the cnquirv.