_ _ to the approaching Trades Union Congress, and went
on : "What more worthy end is there than the peaceful development of our own British industry ? To that . masters and men can make equal contribution. Wild and menaring language if obeyed could reproduce disaster.
I look to the leaders of the Trade Unions, whose re- sponsibility, like my own, is precisely equal to their position and their power, to give a lead in this sense." A first reading of the resolution and the debate which followed produces a baffling and very disappointing im- pression. The resolution was much more political than industrial in form, and Mr. Bevin and Mr. Thomas went out of their way to deride Mr. Baldwin as a Prime Minister who while talking of "Peace in our time, 0 Lord," lent himself to one reactionary move after another. The resolution as such did little to advance industrial peace ; if any group expected a frank and bold declara- tion that the new policy of trade unionism was to be an elaboration of direct negotiation between masters and men they must have been woefully disappointed.
