GERMAN TRADE UNION CONGRESS.
On 'Monday, June 26, at Dresden, the congress of the so-called "free trade- unions" was ojxmed. They are s-omotircios called social democratic tru-do unions in orcl-sr to distinguish
them from the unions with Christian and liberal tendencies. More than 400 delegates, representing over 2,000,000 members, were present. President- Karl Legien, speaking of th-s undeniable progress of the social movement in Germany, took care to remind his hearers that the power of the. employers was at least as strongly increased.* Tho proof of this is that in reoe-nib years the defensive tactics of the employers have been changed into th© offensive. This statement of Le~ gien'e comes.as a confirmation to> every observer, who- must have been struck by the fact that the German employers for some time- past have answered every strike by r a lock-out, thus forcing into submission the masses of German workers unaccustomed to revolutionary tactics.
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Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 27, 8 September 1911, Page 18
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152GERMAN TRADE UNION CONGRESS. Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 27, 8 September 1911, Page 18
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