BRITISH LABOR'S FOLLY.
BLUNDER OF COAL STRIKE. OUTSPOKEN UNION LEADER. London, Sept. 29. Mr. Havelock Wilson, in his presidential address at the annual conference of the National Union of Sailors and Firemen today, said that lhe leaders of the Miners’ Federation had admitted to him that the miners’ strike was one of the most colossal blunders they had ever made. It could have been prevented without an hour’s stoppage. Unemployment could only be solved by the revival of commerce, and mutual confidence and co-operation between the employer and his workmen. Doles merely led to further unemployment. There were extremists who did not want things to improve. They wanted more unemployment, starvation, and turmoil, leading to “glorious revolution”. That did not help the working people. The ideas oi those fools and madmen in no way reflected the feeling of the working class?: of England. When the war had finishec the trades union movement should have endeavored to make a good compromise with the employers for industrial peace.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1921, Page 5
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166BRITISH LABOR'S FOLLY. Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1921, Page 5
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