LABOUR AND WAGES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1914, 24 November 1913, Page 5

LABOUR AND WAGES.

PROBLEM OF STATESMANSHIP. INDUSTRIAL UNREST. MR. BONAR LAW REVIEWS THE SITUATION. (By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright 1 (Rec. November 22, 0.0 p.m.) London, November 22. Referring in a speech at a Unionist demonstration at Birmingham, to tho present unrest in labour, Mr. Bonar Law (Leader of the Unionists) said that the real problem of statesmanship was to get a fairer distribution of wealth without drying up the sources of wealth, j Trades unions, lie said, lad helped tho workers by raising their wages, though this was not so in the last decade, because the more the unions wore devoted to politics, and becoming the mouthpiece of a single • party, tho less was their influence upon the country. He believed that a change in the fiscal system, would tend to raiso wages. Ho thought that a general election was not far distant. * — A LARKIN MANIFESTO. TO ENGLISH TRADE UNIONS. (Rec. November 23, 5.5 p.m.) London, Novombcr 22. James Larkin, the Dublin strike leader, in a manifesto, invites tho English trades unionists to compel-the leaders to terminate tho warfare in Dublin. Ho declares that the loaders should act as though the trades unionists intended to salve the sore of poverty, ill-usage, long hours, and! low wages. "It is the root of tho trouble, and tho remedy for it that is wanted," he asserts, "not industrial commissioners, conciliation boards, or Cabinets, to chloroform the worker . and persuade them to remain as dumb driven dogs."