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[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] IN CONDEMNATION, (Received tins day at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON. M Hon J. dynes was outspoken in condemnation of the general strike in bis presidential address to tile general workers' conference at Bournemouth. He said from the outset he opposed the strike and submitted alternative proposals for financial support of the miners wtliich, supplemented by in a trial action, would have been most likely to have effectively resisted the mine owners attack. A mere fraction of the twenty millions sterling lost in wages by the strike would, if spent in wise political, have placed the workers in possession of enormous power which the Government was able to direct against them. Such a strike submerged the real issue. A national strike could never be complete if there was instant starvation, the first victims of which would he the poorest of the population. Riots and disorders would not feed them and an appeal to force would be met by a superior force.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1926, Page 3
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165COAL DEADLOCK Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1926, Page 3
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