The Congress refused to discuss 1 resolution to call a Conference of all international and national unions so as to secure a unification of world workers. The large majority, of the delegates evidently decided that they had already had enough of Hussia and turned to British industrial questions. The Russian Soviet delegates-Tomsky, Bepse, Amorsoff, Gorbachoft and Jaroesky-were given an uproarious reception when they appeared on the platform. Scenes were the order of the day. One delegate thought he did not get 20 long a hearing as another. He was called to order by the President, and after much more noise and confusion, the offender bowed to the ruling' of the Chair and formally withdrew his remark. The women delegates then rose; Miss Evans of the Women Clerks moved that the special regulations governing the payment of extended (uncovenanted benefit) should be done away with; Miss E. Wilkinson, the former Com: munist, talked about the officials of Labour Exchanges, "securing tabby' eats of both sexes" to sit on unemployment Insurance Committeex, This year the Nationalization' proposals have been extended to form an "Industrial Workers' Charter" including state pensions for all above 60, also for widowed others, education and housing reforms, x maximum working week of 44 hours, a minimum wage for every industry, and the nationalizntion of Jand, mines, minerals and railways. The adoption of this charter "was carried unanimously, bat on behalf of the miners a resolution was submitted and carried advocating the nationalization of
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