The Connecticut labor news., 1924-09-27
COMMUNISM ON
 WAIVE IN EUROPE
By PETER J. BRADY

New York, gives his impressions of the trend of the European labor move ment MT. Brady has just returned to New York from England, where he at tended the sessions of the British Trade Unions Congress as fraterna1 delegate from the American Federation of La bor.-Editor.
 The workers of Europe were never stronger politically than they are now. Economically they are still in distress, the result of destruction wrought by the World War They look to the repara- tions settlement to help lift them out of their poverty and to the United States for assistance in the preservation and of their labor standards.
 In several European countries, in Great Britain and Germany there Is trend to the left, to more radical poli tical action but never were the trade unionists more wary of the danger of Communism than they are today or of the treacherous conduct toward the la bor movement by the Red leaders.
 Tn that democratic manner character istic of the British, delegates from the Soviet All-Russian Trade Union Coun- Gil, were given the floor, including Mi chael Pavlovich Tomsky, chairman and one of the Russian delegates at the re- cent Anglo-Russian treaty conference.
 Tomsky tried to lure the British into the Red Trade Union International of Moscow, but failed signally The Reds are continuing their campaign for ad- mission to the International Federation of Trade Unions of Amsterdam. This in spite of their destructive tactics which have broken up and exploded from within" the best of the European trade unions.
 A resolution was adopted giving the General Council of the Congress power to act in the event of another war emer- gency, as it did in blocking Lloyd Georges last attempt to wage war on Russia. The usual famboyant anti-war resolutions were lacking. European la bor, remembering the outbreak of the World War, is avoiding talk about "A hour demonstration strikes against war and is getting down to business.
 The three important decisions made by the British Trades Union Congress were to declare in favor of a joint effort to bring about an International Congress of all labor unions, to pave the way for general strike as an ef- fective weapon in fundamental British labor disputes and to adopt workers charter or program.
 The program is largely one that must be enacted by the British Labor Party which is linked with the British Trade Union Congress. This party Is still a minority with the support of 4,5O0,OO0 voters out of total of 21,0OOOOO Brit ish citizens and 191 out of 615 members of parliament So it will require years of effort to achieve this program jt includes the following demands:
 Public ownership of natural resources and services, including land, mines, min erals and railways;
 A legal maximum work week of A hours and legal minimum wage for each industry;
 Adequate maintenance for unem- ployed minors and extensions of train ing schools for adults during the de- pression periods;
 Old age pensions for all at sixty and pensions for widowed mothers and de- pendent children
 The Congress met in a period when the Labor Government of Great Britain was winning fresh laurels, not only at home in industrial problems still very but in foreign policy. All Europe looks to Premier Macdonald to lead it out of the abyss into which 1t has plunged by the war The reparations issue was settled and conferences were going on between the premiers of European countries looking forward to land dis armament to which all trade union movements are pledged and to a revival of the League of Nations on a more practical basis
 Fundamental to these aspirations, however is the necessity to revive Eu- ropean industry and end chronic un- employment and suffering. Rehabil;-a- ton is promised as the result of fnanc- ing of Germany through the reparations settlement Yet there is haunting fear among the workers of Europe that Big Business is making the workers of the Old World pay for the war, This is shown by the continued attack on hours and wages It is most evident in he Ruhr
 The workers believe that American participation in the loan was a necessi- ty in reconstruction and revision of the T~oo If Na-coi1Ioc P,,f thew