The project, of which Mr. A. J. Cook is now
the promin- mit advocate, for an alliance of the principal Trade Unions, was discussed at a conference of the Executive last week. The delegates of the National Union of Railwaymen proposed an amendment to the draft Constitution of the alliance, Making it a condition that the unions in one trade or industry should unite. The Conference refused to _accept , the amendment which was directed against the rivalry of Mr. Bromley's Associated Society of Loco- motive Engineers and Firemen to the N.U.R. The delegates of the N.U.R. also objected to the proposed Clause which would bind each member of the alliance to take orders from the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. The N.U.R. Executive afterwards decided to uphold its own autonomy as it always has. It will not, therefore, join the alliance, which loses heavily by the decision, and can only hope to hold up the railways in a national strike through the Lodomotive Engineers and Firemen.
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