PREDICTED RECORD STRIKE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 169, 6 April 1918, Page 6

PREDICTED RECORD STRIKE

| "DARK DISLOYAL FORCES." On the motion for the adjournment of the Legislative Assembly one day this month, Mr. Hannah directed attention to a spcecli in the Collingwood Town Hall by Mr. Greenwood, the member for Boroondara, in which Mr. Greenwood was reported to have said that there was going to he in May next the biggest industrial trouble that Australia bad ever known, and that this trouble was being carefully and 'deliberately engineered. The statement, Mr. Hannah added, had been made in his constituency while he was away in Queensland. He asked Mr. Greenwood if lie. were in possession of I information that a serious industrial upheaval was coming in May, to inform the House. 'Mr. Bailey: He linows that there was no foundation for such a statement. Mr. Greenwood said that, the statements that had been made in the House | were in the nature of an attempt to make him say more concerning the industrial upheaval which lie had predicted. He had not come to the House prepared to do so, but lie was. willing to make a full statement at the> proper- place, and to take full responsibility. He had gone 1,0 Collingwood to predict the industrial upheaval because lie thought that if ho wero wrong the workers who were present would have indicated it. On the other hand, not one word which lie. had uttered was objected to. He had never said that it was the workers who were engineer--ing the trouble. He would say fearlessly again that there were dark and disloyal forces at work in Australia endeavouring to put the workers against their employers, so as to prevent Ausr fralia from continuing her share in tTie great war. Mr. Prendergast: This is wild sectarianism.