The most important item of Jdomestic business on the agenda was a proposal to extend the powers of the General Council. Five years ago the Congress took the first steps to make this Coun-jell a sort of General Staff to. the hole trade union movement. The, idea failed because the unions were apprehensive of having their powers Party Conference is rather more!
Purcell went on to say that, "There of independent action curtailed, and Reresting. by reason of its comic this Island clear mil-because the leaders were dubious of clement. With few exceptions it is|lion of unemployed workers some of [the loyalty of their members to such comparatively easy to judge by a had bee: Council and its decisions. Con-Labour delegate's speeches Just how years. gress has now made it obligatory fay he has for from the soap box relief work, emigration, additional [v® gvery' affiliated union to keep the on the street corner to a seat in|training in' other industries—none|Covhell advised of the progress, of the Cabinet. In the falmivations of of these things would out oat this|all disputes with employers. A the young Clean with his foot on|eancer from the social system, A{union failing to do so, or to take the firet rung of the upward ladder host. of badly for wuder-eduented, *#¢ advice of the Council when] the Capitalist figures as Beclzebub's! poorly clad, and wretchedly housed #iven will be reported to Congress. own brother, the people made up a seemingly fixed [Hf the Council's advice is taken and effusions of the portly"
Labour part-of oar rectal. system and. la the dispute is not thereby: satistuc-Teader at the top the wsice "hated sharp contrast to this was the class {ery settled the Council is author. Capitalist is transmuted ingo a man engaged in exploit and proized to mobilize all the materiel and a brother. Not infrequently a fited taki moral help possible and put it every end complete metamorphosis takes place service of the union concern-outage of the necessities and the one-time capitalist They himself becomes a Capitalist, known to ud In this limited form the plan of a at the ignorant central executive committee for the The Pat and the Lean misery of their ietims, and trade unions should be beneficial to times to justify their wu callous Employer's federations The okies of these yearly assem.|nese and intact 0 exploit the weakness. of Mies ix thas of the trates unions, [this was the sta particular" trade union, will, who have fast concluded their S0th/ pleased Godt place them. That ner its operate themselves annual conference ut Hull. fu many {blasphemous lie was one that the faced wit lithe combined force of ways it is the most in portant (rude union movement existed nual conference of the the They believed that members represents the [destruction of the poor wax their Jargest part of the hill hole noverty—not ixnorance,_ thrifties ~drunkeawess,—laziness—but jonists in other trades, Britain, poverty."
After this fine rhetoriea want a sayin eallinge the flourish'
Mr. Pareell went on to A Wild Ideal ake it donn the Dawes Report faint with the Independent praise and to boost the or the of whether it problem arty, and that Treaty for all he was worth, fi [would be advisable for all unions to Cubinet who estimate the tion of the into one big union, or alter-|2 of Labour by their rise to ons under which the natively, whether it is better to wealth and power of the operatives were all lexed to work organize by craft or industry the features of this vei the mills in the Congress showed its characteristic an angry repudiate cli to evade facing a clear' gates of an Dawes Rew wet's Capupularity issue of domestic policy, They' "New Lead Independent moved that a "united front" was de-Labour Party periodical. Most of) The sirable, and that the present num-the Independent Labour leaders are} ment" was early in evidence at the|ber of trade union should be remembers of the middle classes in Congress. This the new name duced, fairly comfortable circumstances, adopted by the Communists in the] There are a handful of loud:
"exploitation" abroad, instead of ion with the Red International of these resolutions ae a step towards their greater interest in onaes trade unions who favour amalgama- mouthed blockheads who will. hail "exploitation" in the slum street|Moxcow.
Their chief spokesman that bedlamite they look for-around the corner can "he. envily eas Poilitt, a delegate from. the wang' eerste max they Look for~ Understood, "The primary" purpose
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