BRITISH LABOR

Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1925, Page 1

BRITISH LABOR

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] \ RED APPEAL. LONDON. Sopt. 2-1. A Joint Council representing the British and Russian Trade Union Movement has made an appeal to the workers in everv country to assist in removing the' obstacle's preventing the establishment of an all-inclusive Worldwide Federation of trades unions. R declares that the industrial and economic situation which was aggravated hv the Dawes Plan, became worse in most countries in 1925. There is unemployment all the wonU over, and ft' elfeets are steadily increasing. Ib' employers’ attack on the workers’ hours and wages is bee. tiling more definite, and more deliberate. The political situation has hocoinv incroit"high- reactionary and more opposed to working class interests. The danger of war is nearer and more evident. LONDON. Sept. 23. Pointing out that the Trade Inion Congress ratified the agreement for joint international action, which was reached by the Anglo-Rnssian delegates in April last, the General Council of the Congress lias issued a nianilesto appealing 'to iLnhonfiles throughout the world to support tile Anglo-Rus-sian efforts to form an all-inclusive world-wide federation of trade unions. LONDON, Sept. 21. The “Daily Express” Labour correspondent says:— -The leaders of the Labour Party intend directly to challenge the Communist Left Wingers at the Party Conterence at Liverpool, which is regarded as the most critical in the Party's history. There will he a preliminary deliberate “spiking” ol a promised Communist attack on Mr Ramsay MacDonald by the publication to-day of a confidential report on the /inovieff letter affair, in which the Invest igat ion Committee will declare that Mr MacDonald was justified in all his actions. He had no alternative hut to accept the genuineness of the letter, though later evidence suggests that it. was bogus. The official side of the Labour Party is planning to chock the extremists at every turn at 'Liverpool, as it is felt that the Right Wingers’ inertia at Scarborough allowed the Communist wing to score tactical successes in the Trade T'liion Congress by the passage of extreme resolution.”