EXHAUSTED UNIONS.
LABOUR'S PROSPECTS. , { London, April 17. i Mr Wallaead, in his presidential [ address at the annual conference of i the Independent Labour Party, sit- • ting jn Nottingham, said the ~condi-, Uoqs of the workers were going from] i bad to worse. The trade unions were j drained to exhaustion by the long-con-" j tinued period of general unemploy-' meet, and had become a fining ob- ' jeet for a merciless attack by the' 1 federated capitalists, who now de- i [ clared that the vast industrial suuej tufe which had been built by the patient social effort of generations, and by all sections of the community, ) was to be theirs to do with as they i i liked. The result ha figures to-day was the reduction by 4"00 millions ster- j ling yearly in the wages of the work- j tag class and an insatiable demand I
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Otaki Mail, 19 April 1922, Page 1
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