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Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1919, Page 5

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; TRADE AND COMMERCE, COMMITTEE'S RECOMMENDATIONS. By Telegraph.—F.'tss Assn.—Copyright. Received Sept. 9, 5.5 p.m. London, Sept. 3. The report of tlie Government committee on the question of Government machinery in dealing with trade and commerce recommends that the consular service shall remain . under the Foreign Office, but the Board of Trade shall have a voice in tlie selection and promotion in the consular commercial diplomatic service. The board rejects Sir Auckland Geddes' suggestion for the appointment of permanent Board of Trade attaches at British embassies as being unnecessary and likely to cause friction, but the Board of Trade should be empowered to send special missions abroad, Tho Board of Trade should remain responsible for the general commercial policy, while the department of overseas trade should be charged with tlie duty to give effect thereto. Finally, the diplomatic consular service should make the fullest use of its opportunities for consulting British Chambers of Commerce abroad.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

TRADE UNION CONGRESS. APPEAL FOR CONSTITUTIONAL METHODS. Received Sept. 9, 8.5 p.m. London, Sept. 8. The Trade Union Congress, comprising 850 delegates representing 5,265,426 men and women, opened at Glasgow. This is double tho pre-war membership. Mr. Bunning, in his presidential address, said that the Russian war was thoroughly unpopular with the working classes of Britain. The Government was running a grave risk in ignoring it. Deprecating sectional strikes, he said he did not believe that industrial strikes Were for political purposes. The Trade Union Congress had never fully accepted the policy that there was no reform which the people of Britain cannot obtain by the ballot-box. Political strikes were 1 a confession of failure. Greater production could not be obtained by screeching "Slackers!" at the workmen. Mr. Bunning said we must have increased output, hut only by co-operation between the employers and workers could that be attained. The latter were willing to do their share. The Congress had not weakened on the question of nationalisation of the mines. He deplored the lack of discipline lin the Labnlt( movement. Tlie Parliamentary Committee had wasted precious time in settling unnecessary disputes between prions, and unofficial strikes and disputes arising out of the repudiation of agreements. Mr. Sunning concluded by appealing for the employment of constitutional methods, on which a Labor Government, like any other, must rely.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.