INDEPENDENT LABOR.
TRADES UNIONS DRAINED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, April 17. Mr. Wallhead, in his presidential address at the annual conference of the Independent Labor Party, sitting in Nottingham, said that the conditions of the workers were going from bad to worse. The trade unions were drained to exhaustion by the long-continued period of general unemployment and had become a fitting object for a merciless attack by the federated capitalists. who now declared that the vast lindfiis trial structure, 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 liked. The result in figures to-day’ was a reduction of 400 million sterling yearly in wages to the working class and an insatiable demand for more reductions. The conference requested all brandies to support to the utmost the engineers and others who were locked out, Mr. Smillie declaring that if the affected unions were defeated it would entail a serious setback to the whole of the Labor' movement.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 April 1922, Page 5
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174INDEPENDENT LABOR. Taranaki Daily News, 19 April 1922, Page 5
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