LABOUR VIEWS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1392, 19 March 1912, Page 5

LABOUR VIEWS.

SYNDICALISTS AND GENERAL STRIKE. SPEECH BY MR TOM MANN. (Etc. March 19, 0.55 a.m.) London, March 18. Mr. W. J. Thome, Labour M.P. for West Hani, in speaking at Blackfriars, said if the coal strike continued lor sis weeks all trade would be bankrupt. Mr. F. Hall, Labour M.1 , , for Normanton, Yorkshire, at Rotterdam, declared that the miners would not resume until tho Bill was passed, arid then only for a month, pending the fixing of district figures. Mr. Victor Grayson, the Socialist leader, at Creuv, said lie had received n hundred letters from soldiers, declaring that they would refuse to shoot if ordered. Mr. Tom Mann, at Birmingham, said unless the Government was prepared to compel mine-owners to grant die minimum, he would urge the railwaymen and transport workers to strike. Mr. V. Hartshorn, speaking at Maesteg, in Wales, paid no Bill would he acceptable to the minors if it deprived them of the right to strike. Mr. G. H. Roberts, Labour M.P. for Norwich, in a speech at Sheffield, said the Labour party must watch (ho Bill from tho standpoint: of the general trade union movement, and not allow a national crisis to be utilised to deal a blow directly or indirectly at the general activities of trades union organisation.