POST-WAR INDUSTRY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 169, 29 April 1943, Page 4

POST-WAR INDUSTRY.

SQUARE DEAL FOR WORKERS

SCOTTISH LABOUR VIEWS. (Rec. 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, April 28. Mr Peter Henderson, in his presidential address to ’the Scottish Trades Union Congress, declared: “If the people are to be protected from the Nazis in our midst we must demonstrate to the Government and to the employers that the workers must have a square deal after the war. We must emphatically make it clear that wo shall not tolerate the treatment to which the people were subjected after the last yar. The vicious system of cutting down wages and an army of unemployed in a country of potential wealth and abundance represent a tragedy and crime that cannot be repeated when the next peace is • secured.”

Mr Henderson regretted the Government’s hesitant attitude to the Beveridge report and added: “We are forced to the conclusion that big financial interests have again influenced the Government at the expense of the common people. I hope the Government realises that the people will not treat lightly any attempt to evade the principles enunciated in the report.”