Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-05 | Page 6 | Unions Tend to Centralized Body

UulOi'ISTEfiOTO CEfJTRALIZED ' World-Wide Amalgam-- Amalgam-- tion Movement I j ; UnderWay '.' , By HBJritT HMD. "altsd rreas Staff Careeep dent. j GENEVA, Aug. 4 By V. P.) A t fresh worldwide movement far the ".malgmaatloa of Industrlsl unlens Into strong national organisations Zls new under way, aocoruing to the - ..latest reports ta the International m labor bureau from leading countries . of ths world. v In the United mates this grouping r "tendency Is finding expression Is 1ne efforts of the United Cloth Hat tend Cap Makers' union toward "bf luring together ell organised 'workers la the clothing Industry. -1 he total memherehlp of the or-gantsatloa or-gantsatloa concerned Is eetlrastiMi -at, 400,000, snd It Is hoped to wld 'there all Into one . gigantic, national na-tional organisation. J The Amalgamated Clothing Work-kera Work-kera have -already adhered to tha mw project and ather unions are evrted ta give thlr adhesion - shotly. As yet It hss rot been decided whether tha big romblnsd organisation wonld take the form of complete fusion or oisrsly of aratlon of the varloua organlsa-4lons. organlsa-4lons. "cmoup TKADEg irnioMg. In Norway the Chrlatlsn'a trades A cat dragged a sparrow Into the New York home of Mia Maria Klnne. Bho revived it nd nuraed It back to health, and now It will not leave her. Here Miss Klnne la aboard ship to so to Fraae ta I study music, and theeparrowls going wlthjier. of rsechoalovakla Watat mm sad Hallora. Tht sstne tendency Is slso being DlSnircstrd In nearly alt af the la-duntrial la-duntrial countries. The reeult of this, either for good or for evil, according ta the International Inter-national Labor bureau, will bo a vast Increaee In strength of organised organ-ised labor. With all of the varloua unione engaged In the same line of Industry combined Into a elngle organisation, or-ganisation, a degree of power will be exercised not only In the matter mat-ter of strikes, but In all matters af policy that will greatly exceed that of the present alngle national unlen ' congress has adopted aa entirely new plan for tha reorganisation stiff giuuplng uf tfgda iKtlw..- Theaw era all to be grouped according to tha Induatry and the local councils of trade unions, which Include both the esletlng locsl Irsde union snd the ehop councils, are to have great ly Increaeed powcre. In accordance with thla general decision, all the unlona In the building workera trades, such aa masons. - brlcklsyers. carpsnters painters, woodworkere. etc., hsve ssked the Pederstlon of Trade t'nlons to draw up a scheme for a building union to Include all organ-Isatlons organ-Isatlons connected with this Indus- "Jit Italy aeveral new national organisations or-ganisations are being formed. One of theee. called the Corporaslone Nationals, dell'lmplego National Corporation of Salaried Employee! has Just been created and le dlvtd- ad Into ftv aectlona civil servants, ser-vants, employes In charitable and pnhlio relief Inatltutlona, bank employee, em-ployee, Inauranre employee, and commercial employes. The organisation already has 100,004 members. It alma at giving due rerard to Individual ability by combating the e leasees of the principle prin-ciple of productive equality, by helping tha more energetic. Intelligent Intelli-gent and cultivated elements and by roUahoratlne: with the managements manage-ments of public admlniat rations snd bustnesaes to Increase the efficiency effi-ciency of methods of work. rAVOR simOAMATIO!!. The national conference of the managing commlttes of the Keder-st Keder-st Ion of Trsde Unions of Cscho-alovakta Cscho-alovakta haa also adopted a resolution resolu-tion advocating the amalgamation of federations In kindred Induatrlea As a result of this resolution one such amalgamation haa already been formed, the Federation of Boh-mlan Boh-mlan Watermen, the Prague Tnloa of Sailors and the Sailors of Bart-slave Bart-slave having combined into tha alngle aln-gle organisation of the Federation