Condemns American Aggression in Vietnam

from a Scottish reader By an overwhelming majority the Scottish T.U.C. passed a resolution, on Friday April 22nd, condemning the continuation of military operations in Vietnam by the United States, Of the 450 delegates only eight voted against. The resolution was moved by Lawrence Daly ~ a sponsor and good friend of The Week - who is general secretary of the Scottish National Union of Mineworkers. He said that the trade unio had a moral duty to denounce the brutal inhumanity being inflicted on the people of Vietnam. He continued: "When all the arguments have been put forward, the simple fact remains that the armed forces of the greatest capitalist state on earth are committing the most fiendish and outrageous atrocities since Belsen, Buchenwald and Auschwitz." Of particular importance is what Lawrence Daly had to say about America's offer of unconditional negotiations.He commented: "How would the people of London, Coventry, Greenock and Glasgow have felt if Hitler had suggested we should go to the conference table while bombs were dropping on their towns and cities?, Mr. Dan Kelly, of the N.U.R., made a telling point in his speech seconding when he pointed out that the Australian Labour Party was fighting against the war in Vietnam, while the Australian Tories used Mr. Wilson's support of the Americans to justify their positione