DIRECT ACTION

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 36, 6 November 1920, Page 7

DIRECT ACTION

TYRANNY OF SECTION OF ORGANISED LABOUR IMPEDING PROGRESS AND - PROSPERITY By Telegraph-Preea Aaßociation-Copyrieht (Rec. November 5, 8.10 p.m.) London, November 5. Mr. Winston Churchill, in- a speech, stated that the Labour Party's talk about direct action had deeply offended most British people. There was a growing feeling that a considerable section of organised labour was tryinj to tyrannise over the whole public, and Irving to bully them into submission, not by n v gu-_ ment but by brute force. T.abour was' thus impeding the arrival of prosperity arid hampering the scientific progress of industry, and so reducing the valite of wages to the working classes. Trade, union® must review the position during' tire next few years, it' they were going to preserve the influence which they had hitherto exercised, on .British iwhistral (life. One of the deep-rooted fallacies of the. Socialist was the. belief that tile more violent the change the better It was. From that delusion, came the terrifying fear which each labour lender felt that hfe might be pushed out of the wav by some young, and ignorant, irresponsible who would go one better than the trusted leader.- The fact that so many labour leaders were challenging the ! constitution was proof that the majority 1 of their fel'ow countrvnien were rot on 1 their side.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. 1