LABOUR UNREST.
FACTORS IN ITS GROWTH, CHAMBERLAIN'S INDICTMENT, OF LIBERAL FOtICT. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright) (Received 9.50 a.m.) LOXDOX, June 20. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, sneaking at Sheffield, said that the unprecedented labour unrest required the Government's and Parliament's attention, instead of the destruction of the ancient constitution, the plunder of a venerable Church, and the gerrymandering of the constituencies in the interests of faction. The unrest was due to Ministers striving by every artifice and terminological inexactitude to set class against crass. The Budget campaign sowed the seeds of trouble, and other causes were the increased cost of the necessaries of life and the • workers' legitimate desire to raise the standard of life. This was not achievable by arguing that capital was labour's enemy. He concluded by blaming the Government for turning a. deaf ear to the offers of the. Dominions for Imperial preference, and slamming the door in the face of Britain's kinsmen.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 148, 21 June 1912, Page 5
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