SANE LABOR.
STRAIGHT TALK REPORT
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. - * (Australian <S- N.Z. Cable Association)
a LONDON, August 24. The quarterly report of the General Federation of Trades Unions, contains a warning by the Management Committee, signed by Mr Appleton. It .says the period from November to May next will be fateful, perhaps tragic unless sanity returns, and production increases. Avoidable strikes have been precipitated and the Union funds were needlessly dissipated. Some strikes were distinctly political in origin. Such strikes must fail, or end in revolution. They were not against the capitalist, but against the community. Against such strikes the Government must protect the people or surrender their functions. In view of the national situation, and possibility of a grave shortage, it is imperative that Trades Unions should face the facts that the war is over and competition is forcefully operating; that food and raw material must be brought from countries over -whose merchants our Government has no control, and that £hese commodities must be paid for in goods, and not in paper.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1919, Page 2
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172SANE LABOR. Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1919, Page 2
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