Trade Union Regional Conference on the Beveridge Report : abridged report
1943-01-16 1943 1940s 7 pages Copies TWOPENCE each MIDLAND FEDERATION of TRADES COUNCILS TRADE UNION REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE BEVERIDGE REPORT Held in the Midland Institute, Birmingham On 16th January, 1943. ABRIDGED REPORT Vice-President Councillor Charles Spragg occupied the Chair in place of...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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Copies TWOPENCE each MIDLAND FEDERATION of TRADES COUNCILS TRADE UNION REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE BEVERIDGE REPORT Held in the Midland Institute, Birmingham On 16th January, 1943. ABRIDGED REPORT Vice-President Councillor Charles Spragg occupied the Chair in place of Mr. W.H. Edwards (Shrewsbury) indisposed. The Speakers were :— Mr. E.W. Bussey, who substituted Mr. Frank Wolstencroft (out of the country on urgent T.U.C. business), and Mr. Ernest Corby, J.P., (Sec. Trade Union Approved Societies). The following is an abridged Report of the proceedings. Councillor Spragg (Chairman) announced apologies from Messrs. Edwards and Wolstencroft, and explained that this was one of a series of 20 Regional Conferences which were being held in various parts of the country for the purpose of explaining to the representatives of the Trade Union Movement the policy of the General Council of the T.U.C. with regard to the Beveridge Report. The Chairman expressed his opinion that the Report should be thoroughly understood by all members of their movement, because the enemies of the working classes were preparing for a battle in order, if possible, to prevent the Report being translated into legislation. He trusted that the Conference would be the means and the medium of transmitting to their branches, in the clearest possible terms, what was the policy of the Trade Union Congress with regard to Social Security. TRADE UNION CONGRESS AND THE BEVERIDGE REPORT. Mr. E.W. Bussey spoke for three-quarters of an hour on the history of the T.U.C. with regard to great social movements. He said the T.U.C. viewed the Report with a large amount of satisfaction, as it was to a large extent in line with the T.U.C. proposals. Social reform had always been the objective of organised
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