Sept. 8.
The Trade Union Congress at Scarborough has shelved the resolu tion which eonfeys upon the General Council autocratic powers to call a stoppage, of order a general levy on non-affected unions, for the pure Pose of supporting' any union striking in defence of a vital trade union principle, The General Council will examine the question and report to the various union executives. There were heated passages in the course of the diseussio Sept. 9.
By 2,188,000 votes to 1,787,000 the Trade Union Congress' to-day rejected the proposal for a gradual amalgamation of unions with the ultimate aim of forming one his:
It also turned down a majority amendment doprecating the foundation of one union but welcoming efforts to consolidate trade unions into more effective units—Reuter,
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