SEAMEN'S APPEAL TO MINERS AND RAILWAYMEN. (To THE EDITOR OF
THE "SPECTATOR."3 S/R,—A resolution will be moved at the Annual Trade Union Congress, which meets at Derby on September 2nd, in favour- of establishing a bond-fide Trade Union Labour Party. The object of this resolution is to wrest from the Pacificists-Defeatists- Bolsheviks and cranks, who have too long been allowed to mas- querade as Labour leaders, the undue influence which they have usurped by intrigue and trickery from their too confiding constitu- ents. Control must be taken away from middle-class adienturers and hypocrites who have never done anything except misrepresent the character and aspirations of the working man.
The expectation at present is that the " block " votes of the Miners and Railwaymen will be cast against the resolution—i.e., in. favour of leaving the Trade Union machinery largely in the hands of the "Bolshies." That is the issue, and no other. No more splendid or typically British bodies than ths Miners and Railwaymen exist. The rank-and-file are true Britons. For the sake of the country and of the great opportunities which Labour has by common consent earned for itself, we Seamen appeal through your columns to our comrades of the mines and the railways to bring such pressure to bear without delay on their representatives at Derby as to make certain that they will not be misrepresented either to their own fellow-countrymen or to the gseat Democracies who are our Allies. The men who wish to embrace Troeletra must go and form their own party elsewhere.
We appealed last Friday to the Trade Unionists in H.M. Fighting Services, and hourly come thousands of replies endorsing our policy. What will our fighting men think if the Pacificists win at Derby ? That is the issue, and no other. The issue and the responsibility are in the hands of the Miners and Railway-
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