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LABOUR PROGRAMME.

· NOTHING DONE.”

UNIONS NOT TIRED OF GENERAL STATE OF AFFAIRS IN CHINA.

STRIKES.

-RESOLUTIONS FOR SEPTEMBER CONGRESS.

BELIEF IN GENERAL STAFF," WORK.

weapon.

AMUSING SUGGESTION TO THE SOUTHBOROUGH COMMITTEE.

GIVE A DANCE.

I suggested, writes Palaco in the China Express and Telegraph, that the LONDON, July 21st. Southborough Committed give a dance at The general strike in May is net to be "Claridge's. It is but fitting that, after the last or alternatively, if it should five months of strenuous labour, they prove to be the last, that will not be should, before dispersing for the summer because organised industrial labour basholidays, turn to some form of refresh- been convinced by its momentous experi-inent. This should not clash with the ment of the futility of the general strike conversazioni of the China Society, nor with the social reunions which take the Many leaders of labour, not to mention place of the once politico-semi-official a manifesto issued with the authority gatherings of the China Association, nor of the General Council of the Trade with the gatherings of the China Asso- Union Congress, have recently proclaim-ciation, nor with the philosophic sym ed that labour unity emerged from the posis of the British Institute for Inter- test of May actually strengthened national Affairs. The entertainment The programme of the annual Trade should strike a new note befitting the Union Congress, to be opened at Bourne- new policy which the Committee has in- | moath on September oth; shows that augurated, and it seems to me that a among a fairly wide diversity of indus- dance at Claridge's would be the very tries e-belief in the efficacy of an all-thing." powerful labour "General Staff" is still strongly rooted.

been

SIXTY-SIX RESOLUTIONS.

Only sixty-six motions have lodged, The National Amalgamated Furnishing trades demand a maximum forty-four hour week in all trades. national minimum wage of £3 is sought by the National Union of Clerks. The Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders" Society submit a motion for the introduc- tion of decimal coinage and metric weights and measures,

It is remarkable that not a single motion stands in the name of the Miners' Federation while the complete absence of the name of the National Union of Railwaymen from the section of the agenda relating to the extension of the powers of the General Council may also be regarded as significant.

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The Southborough Committee formed in January last in opposition ca the then prevailing P.P.C (policy of patience, and conciliation). Ita battle. cry was to call the really big interests in China to arms, to sound, a clarion note through the sleepy hollows of diplomacy, and to blaze a traif from Hainan to

Kamchatka. "

A GENERAL SURVEY We may survey: the held of their Ave months' activity under headings as

follows:-

(i) The Hongkong Boycott is well It is true that certain sustained. Chinese merchants of a boot-legging turn of mind have tound means to pass goods through the pickets, also that delegatca, negotiators and others, are appointed from time to time, and even go up to Canton or come down to Hongkong as the case may be, but the shipping figures tell their own "tale, while the graphic accounts regarding Coloney Hayley Bell and the Canton Customs House garrison are sure indications that the worth dieth not and the Ere is not quetched.

Early in the proceedings the National Laundry Workers', Union will move a resolution expressing the belief, inter alia, that the time of sectional or group monly denominated a fiasco. The Chinese (i.) The Tariff Conference is now com. organisations-fighting for their rights iselegates have all either taken cauctuary out-of-date. This point of view is rein- or gone into voluntary exile. The for- forced by the more powerful National esgners have fallen out amongst them. scives, not only about what surtax to Union of Distributive and Allied Workers give, but what to do with is when given. which would urge the General Council, They, too, save Mr. Britling Strawn, have ia view of the lessons arising out of adjourned or, anyhow, dissipated. Gore the General Strike to reconsider its are the high hopes of being the nucleus decision of last February aot to seek fur-round which the regeneration of Chinu ther powers from the affiliated organisa-was to evolve: gone even are the lesser tious.

hopes" harboured in Chicago and else.. The Amalgamated Engineering Union where that some part at least of China's whose members have on the whole, prob-buge schedule of debt would be liquidat. ably suffered relatively by the trade de- ed. Their Highnesses and Their Ex- pression, more than any other industry, cellencies have achieved just exactly, no- have, tabled a composite motion instruct- thing. ing the Generp! Council to take over all trado disputes in an early stage and use all the resources of the whole trade union movement in the effort to force a solu- tion satisfactory to the workers. Several other organisations strike a similar note, adhering to the policy of the General

(iv.) The condition of the railways Council having--all-power-to-call--a shows no sign of improvement." The Canton-Hankow line still ends in the gradual, partial or complete stoppage when they deem it advisable and ad-air at two points, and for the interven- vocating the strengthening of the Generating 200 miles one must walk. Eren the Council's hands by divers means not the Ningpo hiatus remains unfilled. Chang least important of which is closer and his myrmidons hold fast to two- alliance between the trade unions and thirds of the Peking-Mukden rolling the Co-operative Societies in order that ample food supplies may be readily avail. able in time of trouble.

Reaction is apparent in but one resalu tion, viz, "that of the National Associa tion of Plasterers, which asks that before all affiliated unions be asked to strike. due time shall be allowed for the matter to be fully discussed for the whole of the unions affiliated to take a ballat of their members.

(iii) The Louns in default in January are in default to-day, and during, as the phrase.goes, the period ander review, the Lunghai and Henan issues have been added to the list...

stick; coal accumulates in atupendous dumps while passengers huddle in wait- ing crowds or stop at Lome. Travellers by the Tientsin-Pukow line take their lives in their hands, the Tsiasa Station, once a model of German efficiency, is now dirty dormitory for soldier-bandit bordes.

With so fine a record of achievement I submit that the Committee is entitled, day they have almost a traditional oh Following this, however, is an expres ligation, to give a dance at Claridge's.

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of opinion by the Amalgamated Society" of Woodworkers that workers cannot avoid the use of mass industrial action and a damned that the General Council shall continuously attempt to expedita union amalgamations.--Reuter," "57

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