RAILWAY CONFERENCE.
. UNEMPLOYMENT INTERNATIONAL. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, July 4The Railway Conference carried a resolution that, while unemployment was one of the inherent evils of capitalism, the present abnormality was due directly to the Versailles Treaty. The conference urged the Government to have it revised. Mr. Thomas, M.P., supporting the resolution, said that a profound mistake was made among the working class in assuming that the substitution of a Labor Government would automatically cure unemployment. But unemployment was not a local or even a national question; it was international. The present Government was return- ; ed on the cry of “Hang the Kaiser and make Germany pay.” Mr- Lloyd George ' now saw that this was a mistaken policy and was veering to the other side. We could not crush Germany without ourselves having to pay a terrible price. The present policy of France only encouraged the enemies of the new Ger-
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 July 1922, Page 7
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150RAILWAY CONFERENCE. Taranaki Daily News, 6 July 1922, Page 7
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