The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-24
By GEORGE HARDY
(Nationa Organizing Secretary of Minority Move
ment in Great Britan)

bodies to act coordinatng centres; az affiiation
of Unemployed Workers movement to the T. U. G.
the Trades Councils to have representation on
the General Council; (5) reorganization of trade
unions upon basis of one union for each industry;
TO- all power to the General Council of the T. U. C.
which must be elected and nominated by the dele
gates present at each Trade Union Congress; CD
to fight for trade union international centre by
the General Council initiating propaganda through
the Anglo Russian Joint Advisory Committee for
international conference, and SJ the creation of
Workers Defense Corps. There are also series of
demands regarding the youth, women and coopera-
tive movements.
The resolution the Trade Union and Trade Dis
putes Act contains strong demand for the nom
operation of the act and for the use of the general
strike against the government in defense of the
first union attacked for refusing to change its
stitution to conform to this anti-workng class law
The General Council is condemned for its lack of
policy which leads to confusion, already the Pos
tai Workers Union is withdrawing from the Labor
Party and the 7. u c., and while the National
Union of Raiwaymen has decided to change its rule
to conform to the law, the Transport Union has de-
cided not to operate the act. The resolution which
was passed unanimously declares "this policy to be
suicidal" and calls upon the union ito ignore the
act by collecting the political levy as before"
Comrade Tom Mann, the chairman of the con-
ference, had delivered to each delegate lengthy
report on his visit to China, which explained the
significance of the Chinese struggle arising from
the horrible conditions imposed by foreign imperial
ism, of which the British were "the worst exploit
ers 1t tells of the huge successes of the interna-
tional delegation of which he was a member Re-
garding the Chinese trade union movement he says:
Evidence of the growth of the workers trade
unions is by the following entirely reliable fig
ures In May, 1925, the total affiliated to the ALL
China Labor Federation was 100000; in MAY of
this year it was 100000 The peasants unions had
made even greater progress having grown from
three million to ten million" He further states 81
have listened to fully 500 speeches apart from in
tervlews and on the strength of this experience |
am warranted in saying that the Chinese trade
union movement is 95 per cent for national revo-
luton and fully rs per cent elear-minded as to the
Chinese national revolution being a part of the
world revolution"
The resolution calls upon the General Council
and the British labor movement to force the Baldwin
government to withdraw their forces from China
and pledges the minority movement to work I'M
ceasngly for the support of the Chinese workers
and peasants in their struggle against militarism
and Imperialism"
: There were two resolutions on the international
trade union movement; one dealing with the l. F. T.
U. Paris conference and the other with the Anglo
Russian committee The first condemns the General
Council conference resolution as q "vioIation