in Hiding Sept. 6.
There wore 697 delegates at the '8th annual Trade Union Congress at Bournemouth.
Owing to a Home Office ban, comrade M. Tomsky and the other Russian delegates have not arrived Bournemouth. No importance is attached to a report that Comrade Yarotsky, the interpreter for the Russians, is hiding in Bournemouth.
There were present fraternal delegates from America, Canada, India, Mexico, and the Amsterdam International.
Sept. 7.
A lively discussion at the Trade Union Congress to-day centred! round a resolution put forward by the General Workers' Union demanding the discouragement of the! Formation of new organizations! with "one big union" as the ultimate goal.
The Congress finally adopted an amendment asking the Council to] call conferences of trade groups in order to promote the merging] of separate unions, after which an emergency resolution was carried expressing concern at the tendency lof the present Government to terfere needlessly in the liberty of the subject and utilize methods of repression in industrial disputes, and protesting against the applic tion of emergency. powers notwithstanding the "'peaceful atmosphere in the mining dispute."
'A proposal by the General Council to impose a penny levy—per member for the next three years! in connexion with the Easton Lodge Labour Education Scheme, for which £50,000 ig required for alterations and developments, was relected by 2,441,000 votes against 1,481,000.
The Countess of Warwick donated Easton Lodge for Labour education.
Attempt to Extend the Powers of the General Council Sept. 8.
The Trade Union Congress today discussed the extension of the General Council's powers int pute. event of a sectional industrial dis-
'The Distributive Workers' delegate moved an emergency resolu-instructing the Council to report to the next Congress the ques~ tion of assisting any union involved in a dispute and levying affiliated unions or calling a partial or complete stoppage of affiliated unions.
The delegate declared they were impenitent over what had happened in the General Strike and wanted efficient machinery to make full use Jof the wonderful solidarity of the workers.
Mr. C. T. Cramp, Industrial General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, Mr, Ernest Bevin, of the Dockers' Union and Mr. C. R. Clynes opposed the resolution Mr. Clynes said the movement at the present time was in a reflective mood with regard to the lessons of the General Strike, and added that if the Council were empowered to' conduct disputes it was folly for the unions to continue a separate existence.
The resolution was rejected by
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