10 SEPTEMBER 1921, Page 3

On Monday afternoon the Trade Union Congress was asked by

the National Union of Clerks to set up a Whitley Council for the benefit of the clerks employed by trade unions. An innocent spectator might have supposed that the request would be accepted with acclamation. As it was, Mr. Jack Jones, who defends the oppressed workman at Westminster, denounced the trade union clerks for asking for better conditions. The trade unions, he said, were resolved to maintain the right of the working men who paid the money to call the tune. In other words, the unions in dealing with their own employees would stand no nonsense, and would behave like the " reactionary employers " whom the president had solemnly denounced.