A FACT TO REMEMBER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 64, 15 November 1913, Page 4

A FACT TO REMEMBER.

A fact which trade unionists would do well to remember just now, the ChristI church Press points out, is that the Federation of Labour lias torn up its own constitution. The strike clause adopted, at the July Congress provided that no union should involve a local industrial "department" in a strike without lirsl placing the matter in the bands of the local "department" exe--1 j cutivo. Similarly a local industrial do-1 pariment wtw to refer matici-s to the: i"natioua] industrial department." The' "national industrial department," in its turn, was bound to "seek the co-i operation of the National Executive in an effort to secure a settlement." 11l Dunedill, some weeks alter the close of the conference, "Professor" Mills; defended the clause as "the 1.0,5| means that has ever been devised for the] prevention of hurried ami ill-advised ; strikes." He explained the elaborate ; and complicated procedure, and the successive conferences of any dispute from one power to the next higher j power, and concluded; "So you see,

men, that it is absolutely impossible for a strike to take place under this constitution without full and careful consideration by level-headed men." It is perfectly clear now that the long rigmarole of the strike clause was simply a Idind, and that the Feder-

ation's own constitution was simply something to he "tossed to hell" by the little group of lawless follows who have constituted themselves the ab-

solute lords and master* of the union