TRADE UNIONS.
CONGRESS IN- ENGLAND. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Sept. 8. The Trade Union Congress dfScussed the amendment to the general council’s standing orders to enable the council to assist financially or otherwise any union that could ‘be attacked by employers, by levying on all the members. Mr. Hodges opposed the proposal, and said the chief characteristic of the trade union movement was a desire for autonomy. Mr. Smillie urged the Congress to press the resolution, though he admitted the scheme would be futile. The great key industries such as mines and railways would determine the future of the trade union movement. The real fight between capital and labor must be a fight with the whole movement joined. If labor had not sufficiently learned that lesson during the last few years the future success of labor was hopeless. The resolution might be the beginning of organising all the unions into one solid movement. Mr. Clynes favored an improved scheme of centralisation. The leaders of great groups of workmen were disunited on the scheme, but against any outside influence in a dispute. It would be unwise to create machinery in the face of a crisis. The motion was shelved.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1922, Page 8
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