London, Sept. 7.
The tremendous indignation aroused by the shooting of Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, the British Ambassador to China, was referred to by Mr. Ernest Bevin, of the Transport and General Workers Union, in his presidential address yesterday to nearly 1,000 delegates attending the 69th annual Trades Union Congress at Norwich.
"While we deeply deplore this particular incident," he said, "attacks on non-combatants in cold blood have been going on for months, The fact that public conscience has been awakened by such horrors may result in a demand that our government cease its feeble action in these matters.
Mr. Bevin expressed a hope for the victory of the democratic forces in Spain, and spoke of the sympati with which he believed trade union-regarded the endeavour of the hinese to maintain their sovereign was Japan's policy to punish anti-Japanese elements in China and to work toward the fulfillment of Japan's mission to stabilize East Asia. He also emphasised that the Red menace must be checked—Domei, rights unimpaired.
In the part of his speech dealing with domestic affairs, Mr. Bevin gave an estimate of 9,000,000 work people as benefitting by collective agreements to which unions were
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