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THE STRIKE WAVE

MODERATE LABOUR APPEALS FOR SANITY

ALTERNATIVE-RUIN AND REVOLUTION.

CRITICAL MONTHS AHEAD

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. August 25, 1 a.m.) London, August 24. Tho quarterly report of the General Federation of Trades Unions contains a ■warning by tho Management Committee, and signed by Mr. W. A. Appleton. Ho says: "The period from November to May next will bo fateful, perhaps tragic, unless sanity returns and production increases. Avoidable strikes have been precipitated, and union funds needlessly dissipated. Some of the strikes had a distinctly political origin. Such strikes must fail, or end in revolution. They are not against the capitalist, but against the community. Against such strikes tho Government must protect tho people, or surrender its functions. In view of the national situation ajid tho possibility of a grave shortage it is imperative that tho trades unions should face the facts that the war is over, competition is forcefully operating, food and raw material must Dp brought from countries over whose 'merchants our Government has no control, and theso commodities must be paid for in goods, not paper, "-di-euter.

PUBLIC WEARY OF THE BUSINESS' QUEST FOR PROTECTIVE MEASURES. London, August 23. Lord Wrenbnry, in a letter to "Tho Times," closely examines the tendencies of ndvancod unionism, its increasing power, repeated demands, and political pressure. Ho suggests the immediate formation of a permanent "national freedom force," to be lion-politioal, and drawn from all classes, prepared to maintain indispensable services when strikers representing perhaps ft twentieth of the population threaten a stoppage iu order to impose economically ruinous terms.

. "The Times" believ.es that people aro getting very weary of the interminable demands and threats, and aro likely to ogreo heartily with Lord Wrenbury, but it .questions the opportuneness of immediate action as liable to bo oonstrued into a challenge of unionism. Moderate unionists aro now, apparently, reasserting themselves, and should be given a oliance to stabilise the position.—"Tho Times." LOST HOURS OF PRODUCTIVE LABOUR, London, August 24. Tho total loss of time in tho South Wales coalfields during tho twelve months ended in mid-July is 7,600,000 hours. Of this total, 4,591,000 hours were lost through avoidable absenteeism, 2,120,000 through unavoidable absencc, and 058,000 through strikes.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. big strikelfco-operative WORKERS LOCK-OUT OF 30,000. (Rec. August 25, 10.5 p.m.), London, August' 24. Tho employees of the co-operative tradins societies in tho North of England have 6truck,- demanding a forty-four-liour week and increased wages. The directors, who aro themselves unionists, ordered a lock-out of thirty thousand, to begin on August 27. Over three hundred societies and 1,500,000 members are involved.—United Service. NATIONALISATION TO BE A TEST QUESTION STATEMENT BY THE MINERS' PRESIDENT. (Rec. August 25, 5.5 p.m.) London, August 24. Mr. Smillio (President of tho Miners' Federation), in an interview, said that the. Miners' Federation had decided to ask the Trade Union Congress in Septem'bcr to make nationalisation a test question, -involving the interests of the whole of organised Labour.—Reuter. LONDON BAKERS' STRIKE TERMS OF SETTLEMENT. London, August 24. An arbitration award has been made to settlo the bakers' dispute. It provides for an adyanco of ss. per week, making the wages 60s. in the country and 05s. in the town;'a 48-hours' week; and payment at the rate of timo and a quarter for the-first two hours of overtime. and then time and a half.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. . UNRESnTITALY PREMIER SOUNDS A NOTE OF ALARM (Rec. August 25, 10.5 p.m.) Rome, August 25. Signor Nitti's circular to the Prelects of the municipalities sounds a note of alarm, and urges prompt action to prevent irreparable disaster. Ho says! "Tho strikes are a weapon of destruction, and the country has to purchase fifteen milliard lire worth of food abroad. AH classes, instead of working and producing, seem to be seized with a mania for waste and luxury, which has to be paid with money almost begged from foreign countries. The spirit of revolt is such that whole provinces refuse to eat the foods which they habitually ale before the war. The revolutionaries are the enemies of their country, and the disorders mean the starvation of half the nation. A million and a quarter acres of land have gone out of cultivation. It is absurd to attempt to reduce.the prices while production is scant."—Aus.-N.Z. Ccble Assn.

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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 283, 26 August 1919, Page 5

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THE STRIKE WAVE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 283, 26 August 1919, Page 5

THE STRIKE WAVE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 283, 26 August 1919, Page 5

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