INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1919, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

PERFECTING STRIKE MACHINERY. VALUE OF CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT. By Telesraph.—-Press Aasn —Copyrlght Received Oct. 20, 5.5 p.m. London, Oct. 19. Mr. Gosling, president of the Transport Workers' Federation, in a speech delivered in London, revealed the fact that an intimate relationship existed between the trade union and co-operative movements during the strike, enabling Labor to organise the distribution of £OOO,OOO through the Co-operative Bank three days after the Government's announcement stopping the railwaymen's back pay. If tho strike had continued food would similarly iiave been distributed to the strikers' families.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Received Oct. 20. 1.35 p.m. London, Oct. 28Mr. Gosling added that it would surprise many to know how quickly* machinery was established during the recent strike in order to feed the people. Through the co-operative movement more would be' done in this direction iu the future, and ultimately, when the workers desired to get rid of the capitalists and profiteers, they would do it without a fight, because the co-operative movement would be. come the employer. Mr. Robert Williams, in a speech at Newport, criticised the. railwaymen's tactics in striking without informing the Triple Alliance of the progress of the negottations. If the Alliance had been' consulted, the strike might have been avoided.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.