The Trade Union Congress—the largest yet held—opened on Monday at
Bristol. Mr. Henderson—the first Cabinet Minister yet seen at one of these meetings—was on the plat- form, and Mr. Brace, Under-Secretary for the Home Office, was also present. In his Presidential address Mr. Seddon said he believed the war to be a death-grapple between systems that could not coexist if freedom was to be something more than a name. Prussian militarism must be destroyed, and our share in the struggle would be equal to a defeat unless we made the horrors of this war end in the overthrow of aggressive militarism. He declared that food prices and war profits were the chief cause of the labour unrest, and he appealed to the Government, and especially to the Minister for Munitions, to equalize the burden and restore national confidence by prevent- ing profit-mongering.
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