Trades Union Congress
The Trades Union Congress, meeting this week, has national affairs recorded the verdicts that were to be cxp —determination to destroy the Nazi-Fascist regime, satisfacti, at the Churchill-Roosevelt meeting, and a pledge of all possi assistance to the Soviet Union. It amplified the last of th by carrying a proposal of the General Council for the estab meet of an Anglo-Russian Trade Union Council, to be compo of an equal number of representatives from each nation, to meet in the two countries alternately—a plan which, if could be got going in war-time, might perhaps be fruitful continued after the war. In thus opening their arms to Russian workers, the T.U.C. leaders were careful to keep th very tight shut against the Communist Party of Great Brita whose " astonishing gyrations," said the President of di Congress, " have placed them in the lowest category in esteem of the British working class." The difference betty these two attitudes is not surprising, nor is it really an inc sistency. Other discussions ranged over the problems of a production, the employment of women, and the position workpeople voluntarily or compulsorily transferred under Registration for Employment Order. There was a demand many sides that Labour should be told more ; e.g., that work kept standing by idle machines should be let know why wit was held up, or that trade unions should be brought into ci sultation before applications for deferment of calling-up nod were decided.
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