British Commonwealth of Nations: Trades Union Congress

COMMONWEALTH (British Commonwealth of Nations')

At Hull, Yorkshire, was held this year's Trades Union Congress.* Some 700 delegates, representing more than 5 million workers, attended. Fraternal delegates present were Peter J. Brady and Edward J. Gainer of the American Federation of Labor; J. A. McClelland of the Canadian Trades and Labor Congress; J. Ondegeest of the Amsterdam Trades Union Internationale; five representatives from the All-Russian Council of Trade under the chairmanship of M. Michael Pavlovitch Tomsky.

The agenda:

1) Nationalization of land, mines,...

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