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be read into that appeal was that if agreement were reached the Government would carry it into effect
Yet every member of the Joins Committee of the Industrial Council knows that the Hours" Bill ta
ta he introduced into the House of Commons differs largely from the un- animous agreement arrived at by employ- ers and workpeople. These the things which destroy confidence, and rise.
distet to tide over a temporary difficulty, will to the feeling that the Prime make any promise with no intention of carrying it out, careless of what may happen in the future to his ecuntry or bis reputation.
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INCERASED OUTPUT.
The Trade Union Congress opened at. Glasgow on September 8th., and M. G. H. Stuart Bunning delivered his presidential address. After paying a warm tribute to those who fell in the war, and to the valour of our fighting forces, he proceed ed: I had hoped, and I know you had hoped, that at this Congress we could thera was peace everywhere in the world.
"Reference to the Industrial Council we are involved in a war with creased output. The world is, five year Russia, which is thoroughly unpopular behind, the wastage must be repaired, the with the working-
Classes of
of this country. That
fost tipe made up, and so there must (Cheers.)
has been illustrat
me an increase of productivity. But this ed
in many ways, and the Government is running a grave risk by ignoring it. The will not be obtained by screeching Slack
ers at us For
one thing, it is not true, great war was not all loss
loss, and among other things, it proved the
if it were, that would not be the way ard strength
It is not wonderful necessity of trade unionism. It is curious to get it altered.
that after five years of persistent
effort to remember that at the beginning of the
of long hours, and sometimes insufficient campaign there were quite well-meaning and unpalatable food, that some weari people, and even a number of trade 2010-
Деня should be noticeable. It is not ists, was argued for the cessation of trade strange that men who have been fghting union effort during the war. It is well
happin' this is not so, and, still more naturally brings up the question of in-
tearfully nos abusing trade unions were almost to them for help dur- early appealing ing the war.
It is not too much to any that the enormous output of military material needed for the war could
uld not have
been attained without the cordial assistance of the trade union movement That assistance was asked by responsible Ministers it was freely
Bad
to remember this, just as it is well for ears in the most awful conditions ret back remember that many of those who are should requiresome little time to
old skill their
It is re- and aptitude. markable that this is not more pronoune ed, and on those who charge us with de- liberate stacking lies a burden of proof
they
y (will not find it
it easy to dia- charge. This question of increased out. put was raised at the Joint Industrial Committee, when thirty leading empley- ers as with thirty Labour men and women, and we met the challenge of the employers by saying. Prepare your case as to output, and we will prepare ours on the causes of industrial unrest. We proffered our sus in a document which has been issued to the world. To this day we have not received the employers' ease on output. Let it be clearly under stood that increased output can only be obtained by the co-operation of both em players
well to remind the pubiven, and it is
•
Then there are those some within our own ranks, who are always discovering that the Trade Union Congress is played out. The answer to them is to be found in the figures of affiliated membership for this year, a record total of 5,963,426. (Hear, bear)
It is a vast army, and leadership in it brings great responsibilities. It is.
OUR PRICE LISTS HAVE NOW BEEN PUBLISHED AND The request to the committee was to con-
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tberefore, not always possible to act, wii and employed, and that we are to do Ou Share (Hear, bear.) simply and as easily as may be desired. The position of the miners during the and during the year the action of the peer Sghting for an item which has
been tha
"they Parliamentary Committee on the impor- tant question of direct action has
on our programme for many years the misunderstood and misrepresented as an
nationalization of mines. do not intend attempt to prevent trade uniona frops to discuss the merits of the Sankey or their convictions on certam any other report, as the master
will expressing definite subjects. It was not so intended. ap in its proper place, but I know that I voice the feeling of Congress when. I vene a special congress to consider whe hank the miners for their fight-(bear,. the a recommendation should go to the bear)and assure them that this Congress unions to ballot their members as to whe is not weakening on the question of na
tionalisation. (Hear, hear.) event of certain demands to the Govern ment being
It our used would end with and there are one or two items to which
auggested the
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it respon sibility
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refer have identified the committee with the to that difficulty, it is only to announce polier of A national matters, and from that
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for a moment the exact position of affairs tee had to view the 100. This congress has never yet fully accept ed the policy of a national strike. on the industrial matters which are its primary function. do not think
it has ever seri ously discussed the national strike on political issue, still less on several paliti cal issues pa some of which there were sharp divisions among our own people.
A DESPERATE GAMBLE,
The Parliamentary Committee's re- port deals with a varied field of activity. I would call special attention. Two years ago you expressed your belief in the lo ternational trade union movement, and instructed us to take steps to revive it The difficulties At the proper moment in the way were very great, and one of
at
the comm i bazit was overcome, and for the first time a fully representative British dele- Consideration
gation attended a Trade Upion Inter national as Amsterdam in July. It was, perhaps, too much to expect that the war clouds would have entirely railed
away. and that representatives of nations O lately at one another's throats would settle down amicably at once. At all events that is not what happened. but a great deal was done in getting together a conference representing 18,000,000. work- ers from fourteen countries. and progress was made towards the founda tion of a real international.
THE BABÓUR CHARTER.
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We were, therefore, asked to do some thing for which there was no precedent by executives who could 'ret say definitely whether their own members were behind "You will also be called upon to deal them, and we were asked to do this at with the proposed World Labour Confer a time when, dark though was the outence in Washington, an immense project look, there were bright spots in the sky with which your committed bas The working prople of confidence in the What Ja, called the Labour Charter wis who directly connected from the beginning. had never lost hope or blackest days of the war, were to be asked arst drafted by a committee in Paris, of to accept the gospel of despair in the which Mr. G. N. Barnes, was chairman, hour of victory. Whatever the result of and four members of your committee. the proposed special congress, it would along with Mr. Artbar Henderson, also have been disastrous to us bad it rejector took part. It is a great and bold idea the proposal to ballot members on the to bring together representatives of the national strike. It would have stereo State, the cinployer, and the worker, to typed the very policies it would desire to condemn.
On
Had it passed the resolution better now the world may be made u place which to live, and to bring them and the members had rejected it the most backward nation to the position
at the ballot the result would have been of the most forward. There are difneul-
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a miserable and tragic fasco. Bo it ties ahead, but these may, inderd might have been declared. What then t be, surmounted. (Hear, hear.) There
sess in this country a vast body of trade were prominent men who sincerely believed the
Bucha upon
a manifestation naicnists. Amalgamation and. Ederation the Government would immediately re are binding them more closely every
hey. verse its policy. I cannot share that We are within measuraule distance of a view, nor ever understand how it was
maximum working week of forty-ei arrived at
The present Government is hours for all, and of a system which not renowned for
but, driven abolish sweated wages everywhere. Wa been. it must have close and harmonious relations with to bay as it would have fought. If the Government fought, the great co-operative movement, and it meant revolution. The project, there with our working understanding fore, resolved itself into a desperate with the Labour Party, denotes the ant gamble with the lives of men, women,
up of a machine of irresistible and children for the stakes.
The
Parhnach
incalculable beneft to tary Committee, therefore,
well of this country.
to the People might
But we
grievous besitate to call a congress. As to direct faults which must be remedied. Precious itself, I do not believe in in-time is devoted by the Parliamentary dustrial strikes on political matters Committee to the consideration of dis
hear.) In other words, I do not putes between unions which ought never
and which, if they did
Aspair of constitutional methods. (Hear to arise settled without the bitterness i
hear. There is no political reform, how ever great and far-reaching, which the working people of this country cannot achieve by the ballet-box, and action is a confession of failure It is not necessary to make that confession. The evidence is against auch necessity, and so I am opposed to direct action on political matters. It is only right to say that the suggestions of direct action are the conduct of Ministers
Fisc
oug ought to and perimony so often imparted. Then the discipline of the movement is deficient. I do not disguise from myself or try to hide from you that officials and execu tives make mistakes. but unofficial strikes and the repudiation of agreements are the worst ways of dealing with those mis takes Victories won that way are dearly bought, for they destroy the moral of your own elected leaders, and, worse still, and honour of trade unionista. "I agrep
due largely a easy for a Minister impair public confidence in the jater
themselves.
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the real test of speeches is not the controly. But whatever we do we must up- striction of the sentences, but the effects they are intended to, produce and do hold the reputation of trades unions t produce.
keep the pargains they have made. Wa have successfully When the Prime Minister noke of when trade unionisin was connected in emerged from the period conscription at the General Election the effect produced was that the Government, truction of machinery and the burning obtained and retained by a well-founded to carry it on either in this congress F minds of many people with the des people, and that confidence can only be The great war is over. Let us not seek it reelected, would almost immediately of factories. We have earned a place in belief in the integrity of the party which elsewhere. There is no hatred Eats abolish
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the respect of the nation because we could said in Dundee that the rail ways were to bo nationalised the effect be trusted, and it is essential that we provides the Government. It is the weak there is no time to waste in hatred. Hate ness of the present Administration; it destroys, and it is our function to con- Moreover, must be the strength of ours. I appeal, struct. Let us therefore so construct produced was that the Government would should retain that respect
we may confidently look forward in a therefore, for that loyalty within our we leave behind us a lasting foundation proceed with that policy forthwith short time to a Labour Government. No elves and that discipline without which for peace and a heautified and happy When Mr. Lloyd George appealed to em. Government can continue to exist which we shall degenerate into a rabble and frit country. The world has been shattered i ployers and workpeople alike to meet does not enjoy the confidence of the ter away our strength, in internal dis into bits Let us conspire to mould in together and hammer out a new indus trial policy the only thing which could Continued at foot of next column.) patca. (Choers-) And now a final word nearer to the heart's desire.
that