TRADES UNION WEAKNESS.
MR. CLYNES’ ADVICE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.-—Copyright. London, June 5. Mr. J. R. Clynes, in his presidential address to the National Union of General Workers, at Birmingham, referred to the serious weakness of trades union organisation arising out of the conflict in the degrees of leadership within the unions, through which the men, to make room f° r themselves, had done serious mischief.
Mr. Clynes declared that the present economic breakdown was due to the timidity and ignorance of statesmen. Peace and trade prosperity was not to he found in rival military alliances. It was the poor who suffered ‘by under-pro-duction, and scarcity was the real friend of the profiteer. Under-production afforded no protection to the worker.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 June 1922, Page 5
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119TRADES UNION WEAKNESS. Taranaki Daily News, 7 June 1922, Page 5
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