MINERS’ STRIKE.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 June 1921, Page 5

MINERS’ STRIKE.

THE END MUST COME. MINERS* MAY GIVE IN. By Telegraph.—-Press Assn. —Copyright. London, June 21. Mr. Hodges, addressing the Labor Conference at Brighton, said he believed that the miners in fighting their own battle were helping the workers generally in what would be their subsequent battles, but the miners’ investigations indicated that the trade union movement for the most part was unhappily a mere grouping of close corporations with only their own particular interests at heart. This was a markedly increasing tendency. The failure of the triple alliance was due to the internal structure of trade unionism. The present struggle could not continue indefinitely, the time must come when they would terminate the sacrifice and suffering. The leaders had taken a great responsibility on themselves rather than allow the huge mass of population to go on until chaos and disaster reigned, whore now discipline, goodwill and solidarity prevailed. While they might have to bend to inevitable forces they would not rest content until they achieved politically what they had failed to achieve industrially.