Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Trade Union Congress, settling to business, refused to admit delegates from the Seamen's Union (suspected of being red); refused to receive a delegation of unemployed coal miners who had walked many a mile from their mine to appeal for help; and shouted down John Joseph Jones M. P., famed as "Jumping Jack Jones," when he rose to protest that the seamen and miners ought to be granted at least a hearing...
Even potent James Henry Thomas, famed "Balance Wheel of British Labor," was without his usual dynamic optimism as he informed the Congress that the Railway Men's Unions, of which he is General Secretary, are now slightly dwindling in membership. "People," said Mr. Thomas indignantly, "tell the workers not to believe what their leaders say, and say that the leaders have sold them." It is Mr. Thomas who has risen from a grimy engineer's cab to a snug little mansion with flagstone paths in the garden; to playing bridge with Peers; and to enjoying an occasional audience...
...Congress, after barkening to a few more leaders, plunged into consideration of Labor's issue-of-the-hour: MONDISM...
...Congress, after debating MONDISM thoroughly last week, endorsed its principles by a vote representing 3,075,000 union members favorable and only 566,000 opposed...
...pitiable little scene passed almost unnoticed amid the triumph of MONDISM. Famed A. J. "Emperor" Cook, the fighting Laborite who precipitated the General Strike, rose and began to address the Congress with torrential passion, crying that trade unions exist not to cooperate with employers' associations but to wring concessions from them...