WORKERS CANNOT HAVE IT BOTH WAYS
Received Wedensdav, 7 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 15. The workers could not have a Labour Government and at the same time repudiate the trade unious and their ieaders, deelared Mr. Tom O'Brien, Labour meinber of the House of Gom■m ons, and also a menilier of the Trade Fnions Conpeil General Couneil, in a •qioech at Nottingham. Mr. O'Brien, .who was eonimenting on the present ' transport strike, said a Labour Government could not last alongside of a rliscredited trade union movement. The right to strike xvas oue of the i^-reat liberties of demoejacy, and like all great liberties it could be lost by ibuse. Nothing menaeed the right t'o strike more than eonstant use of the ■itrike by" unofficial groups of wprkers. "I ask the workers to ponder the Fact that the first Labour Government vith power has been forced to us.e
troops in an unofficial strike more than , once to save the people 's food., It • cannot go on. " • ■]
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Chronicle (Levin), 16 January 1947, Page 5
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