In this, the Engineering and Shipbuilding Union and the Amalgamated Engineering Union are still obdurate. They will agree to dilution of labour, they say, if the Government will allow arms to be supplied to Barcelena. The General Council were astounded at this statement and strongly repudiated it. In plain English what the two recalcitrant union really say is, "We've got a good thing and we're not going to let in outsiders to have a share in it." In rather glaring contrast the Congress rejected a motion by the Medical Practitioners Union in favour of keeping out alien refugee doctors, who, as the M.P.U. speakers truly urged threaten the home-made article "with dilution by non-union non-
Socialist labour, On the last day the Left wing trotted out the hoary application by the Russian trade unions to be allowed to join the International Federation of Trade Unions, and were again routed by about two to one. More and more Labour moves to the right, coupled with jealous restriction of its own preserves while, incongruously, if be labours Government for not making work for everyone. Just try, as I have done, td find a job for a ran down on his luck, even as no more than a night watchman. Wherever you turn the thorny and aggressive barrier of -trade union privilege blocks the way. "If I took on your man," said the manager of one big business, "T should have a deputation from at least four trade unions tomorrow."
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