London, Sept. 2
The annual meeting of the Trade Union Congress, which is now in fession at Nottingham, to-day dis-Jeussed the report. of the Economic Committee on Empire Trade, in which it was unanimously recommended that, at the forthcoming Imperial Conference, it would be in the interest of the trade union movement for the Socialist Part press for the fullest possible development of the economic relations between Britain and the Dominions and urge the creation of machinery Jand, if necessary, agreements with the' Dominions for the further development of inter-Commonwealth trade and the best possible distribution of economic activities within the British Commonwealth.
Mr, Ernest Bevin, introducing the report, denied the assumption that. the Economic Committee on Empire! Trade had been influenced by the! Jcampaign conducted by Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere.
He declared that they were not going to follow "the crazy Conser-Native policy of endeavouring to find a solution of unemployment by fiscal and tariff arrangement, but} it is impossible to recomeile the operation of Free Trade with the ion of industry under public and supporters of the motion to refer it back to the Economic Committee declared it to te mate offspring of the Turner-Mond union" and advocated that "it should ye sent back to its twilight-sleep."
The motion to refer back the report to the Economic Committee was then defeated by 1,878,000 to' 1,401,000 votes.—Rester,
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