closed doors, representa. Briticn and Russian trad met in Beckest ways and means (¢allifiation of Russian ule unions to the Amsterdam Tu. ational Federation of Trads Unions.
Comrade Tomsky, president of the All-Russian Trade Union Coun cil, made foment in which Ww attention to the ever-intereat strength of organized capitalism, under which workers were over worked and underpaid and prevented from realizing the ideals of a better odal system. Me declared that Russian trade unionists could nos accept the decision of the rece [conference at Amsterdam (whereby: Russian unions only could be admitted to an unconditional conte lence when they applied for affiliation with the International Federation of Trade Unions). He urged free and unfettered international discussion.
The British representatives. wi reply to-morrow.
Note:—Eight Russian trade un-fonists arrived in London on April 1, to discuss with' representatives Jof the General Council of the Trade Union Congress the question international unity, following ths rejection by the Council of the International Federation of Trade Unions at Amsterdam in February of a British proposal for an unconditional and informal conference: with the Moscow International with the aim of establishing unity. The Council offered to admit the Rus sians if the latter expressed a desire for admission, and declared its readiness to convene a conference at Amsterdam to if the Russians voiced their willing ness to join the International
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