Congress' of Hull: "Sympathy. with German Workmen under Dawes Scheme London, Sept. 1, The Trade: Union Congress open:
at the City Hall at Hull to-day There were 700 delegates representing 4,500,000 members. Mr. A. A. Purcell, a1.r., presided.
Referring to the position of the German workers, Mr, Purcell said that British trade-unionism ough: to insist that if reparations and indemnities had to be paid under the Dawes scheme, they should be paid without injury to the recipients. The burden should fall upon the exploiter and profiteer.
Mr, Purcell commended. the Russian Treaty and warned thy Congress that possibly opposition to the Treaty might decide the fate of the Government.
Mr. Cook, the secretary of the 'Miners' Federation, said that had received a telegram from French miners strongly protesting, against the Dawes scheme and its effect on the German workers.
it. Marchbank, a railway ma, said that he hoped an opportunity. would be given to discuss the Dawes report, which, he suid, was esigned to benefit' international capitalism and to ruin the working-
Mr. Pollitt, a boiler-maker, im= passionedly demanded that' the trade union movement should con trol the policy of the Labour Government and that the Congress should emphatically repudiate the Unreat to introduce the Emergency: Powers Act in trade union disputes and denounce the Dawes report, which made war inevitable.
My, Robert Smillie, on behalf of the Executive, while not denying the right of the Congress to eriticizn the Government's policy, defonde the latter, He said that the Dawes agreement was in the best interest fof the workers of oth Britain and Germans 'A portion of the Council's report declaring that it was not the funetion of the Congress to enlarge upon Labour Government legislation war carried by a large majority in spite of an attack by the Communist section, The Congress then adjourned Reuter.
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