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Scarborough, June 10.

A slashing attack on the "international arms gang" was made at the Amalgamated Engineering Union Con- ference here to-day by Mr. Fred Smith, leader of the en- gineers, the men who make the arms and munitions.

It had been reported, he said, that the British Government was sending orders to Germany, à country that may be "our first enemy."

"It rather mystifies me," he declared. "It gives you the im- pression that the production of arms and the talk of war are the machinations of an international financial gong with no other object than expenditure on arma as a commercial proposition and no thought of war in their minds.".

Mr. Smith was speaking on the subject of trainces and dilu- tion and suggested that they had to ensure that those who were brought into the industry under these schemes should be the first to go out when the boom ended,

FOREIGN TRADE NEGLECTED

As a result of the arms programme foreign trade was being neglected, and that was where they might and the greater part of the slump would occur.

The first principle should be to ce that those who came in at a time of rational emergency should not be allowed to crowd out these who had given their lives to the industry.

Mr. J. C. Little, the president, ad- mitted that the trainee and dilution Problem was very dimcult. The en-. ployers had put it in such a way as ilterally to charge the union with having an anti-social outlook, in view of the desire of everyone else to get the unemployed out of the distressed

areas.

They had to remember that, but at the same time they must have regard to the effect of an influx of men from the distressed areas on in- wages and conditions in the dustry.

"So long as there are unemployed in our organisation, we will not will- ingly permit trainees to do our mem- bers work," he declared.

"We can adopt that attitude with- out being charged with being anti- social in looking after the interests of

our members, to dilution, Mr. Little

With regard

suld they would not permit unskilled or semi-skilled men to do work normally done by skilled men and the employers so far had not challenged that position.

In Ramsey, the director of the em- ployers' federation had given a cate- Rorical statement that the federation had not even contemplated the, possi- bility of dilution.

"We ought not to contemplate the possibility of dilution," Mr. Little went an, "30 long as there is no war existing.

WAR ATMOSPHERE

"What they have done in the past was to devop a war atmosphere to get publle opinion behind them in the possible desire they might have to em- ploy any kind of labour anywhere.

"At present we are not negotia- ting in a war atmosphere but in an ordinary production atmosphere. War condition do not obtain.". Mr. J. Cantel (Southampton) urged that they should take a broad social Ilne on this issue as most of the trainees were boys from the distressed areas.

"We should not debar them from a chance in life or deny them a place in the sun. Because a boy is born In a mining area it does not necessarily follow that he should be forced to be a miner."

Mr. Fred Smith made this point also and said a strike on the issue would be fatal, as publle opinion

would be against them, especially s so many of the trainees were drawn from the distressed arens.

CONTROL OF TRAINEES

A Glasgow motion calling for the control of trainees and dilutees, the payment of full district wages, and compulsory membership of the union as a condition of employment was de- fonteri.

But the following important amend ment, which now forms the policy of the union, was moved by Mr. J. II. Twaddle (Tyneside);

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