Attempt to Reject Peace Nero tion Refused by Congress London, Sept, 6."
The Trade Union Congress took a card-vote to-day on a motion opposing. the industrial peace negotiations with the employers. The motion was' rejected. by' 2,921,000 votes. to 760,000.
Mr. J, T.'Brownlie, representing '4 section of engineers, was repented ly interrupted, when he opposed the Council's policy-and moved that, the whole question-be feferted back to the executives' of the unions, Mr. J. Re Clynes, str., President of the National 'Union of G eral and Municipal Workers a member of the Councily: repudiated the "vicious allegation" that the 'Congress was' trafficking with the capitalist system.
Mr. A. J. Cook, Secretary of the Miners' Federation, fainted and was carried out in a state of collapse after a long, impassioned—specélx opposing the negotiations.
Mr, Herbert Smith, the President of the same union, said that the 'Miners' Federation had decided that. the General Council had acted right in accepting the employers' me vitation to negotiate for industrial Rejection of Proposal for Anglo-
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