The Trades Union Congress
The Trades Union Congress is being held this week , .
at Belfast and we have written in a leading article abOut Mr. Tillett's striking Presidential address. The tendency of the Congress has been to go sloW with. any business likely to be at all embarrassing to the Government. The spirit of the negotiations with the employers' organizations governs the situation. "Every man a Capitalist" might be the motto of the new movement, and no motto could be better. On Tuesday the proposal that Trade Unions should be reorganized on the basis of one union for each industry was not smiled upon by the General Council. The General Council examined this plan a few years ago and considered it impracticable. The only noticeable point in the rejection of the proposal on Tuesday was the largeness of the minority vote. By an overwhelming majority the Congress voted a scheme for developing the Daily Herald. The details are not known, but it is very significant that this Socialist newspaper is to be handed over, under a form of control, to private enterprise.
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