BRITISH LABOR CONGRESS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 September 1925, Page 2

BRITISH LABOR CONGRESS

A CANON’S VI FAYS. (Australia A N.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON. Sept. 7. There were numerous trade union -leeches on Kunda\ in connection with the industrial Parliament opening on Monday at Scarborough, where several hundred delegates have already assembled. invading the lounges of fashionable hotels that hitherto have been ojven tqi to well-to-do pleasure-seek-ers. The possibility of a split- between the Trade Union Congress and the Labour Darty continues to lit' heatedly discii-cd. Since the general election the Trade Union leaders have eclipsed the politician-, as v.a- .shown during the negotiations to prevent tin* mirteis’ strike. They are anxious not to he hampered hv the special interests of the Labour Party Canon Donaldson, who once led the Leicester hunger strikers in London preached a special sen ice to the Trade Unionists. He vigoroluslv comljatod Commimi-iu. He said: “Force is no remedy. Anarchism is idealism wedded to despair. Labour, like Christ, ha.- not come to abrogate the law. hut to fulfil it. Any ntompt, at a s!c cut to the kingdom is inconsistent with this truth. The ((institution of Hri-

tain supplied ample means to cope with Labour's difficulties. Mr Bromley, addressing the railway men at- Hull, said: "Next time there is a. strike the loco drivers will not take their engines carefully home for the companies, hut "'ill leave the damn things where they happoi to he." LONDON. Sept. G.

Mr Bromley, ndressiiig the Enginedrivers. said that they were able to see the first, glimmer of a storm which inevitably would become -serious. So far. the ira le unions had been lairl.v siaces'iul hut the capitalist.- had a good many ways of drawing the teeth ol Labour One of the favourite methods wa.s to flatter the. Labour leaders, giiing them fat jobs, or steady, rich place-. Many leaders were very -us-eptilile to flattery. Labour he >aid. with a united front could defeat the coming attempt to reduce wages, hut a light was impossible while some of their leaders had one foot on the earth ami one loot in the clouds. Mr Bromley eomplameif of the appalling gluttony, extravagance and luxury in evideme in the country, despite the widespread un-employ incut, privation and di-tre-s prevalent. He

gave, as ail instance, the fact that warships were detailed to escort the King’s ya-.-ht t ► the Mediterranean. If<* also mentioned that .-porting guns, weighing in the aggregate 2-10 tons, had been sent to Scotland for the grouse shooting. Tim bloated millionaires. dm said, were .-pending and gambling lavishly at Danville. The unemployment position would not he remedied until ;!m introduction of the capital levy., '•lf.'’ he Said, "the railway companies insist on cutting wages, then we won't, tight like gentlemen. but we will take the gloves off and will leave our locomotive- anywhere. without notice.”