UNIONISM'S POWER.
. USE OF THE STRIKE WEAPON. NATIONAL FORCE TO OPPOSE IT SUGGESTION CRITICISED. !Received 2.35 p.m.) LONDON, August 24. Lord Wrenbury (formerly Sir Henry Buckley. Lord Justice of Appeal), in a letter to the "Times.'" closely examines the tendencies of advanced trades unionism, and refers to its increasing power, j repeated demands, and political pressure. He suggests the immediate formation ot a permanent national frceu.....' ~"e, nonpolitical, and drawn from all classes, prei pared to maintain indispensable services wlu-n strikers, representing perhaps a I twentieth of the population, threaten stoppage in order to impose economically 1 ruinous terms. I The -Times"" believes that the people! ■are getting very weary of interminable; demands and threats, "and are likely to 'heartily agree with Lord Wrenbury* but i it questions the opportunities of imme-| Idiate action, which i s liable to be construed into a challenge to unionism. •Moderate unionists are now apparently re-asserting themselves, and should be J : given a chance of stabilising the position.' | (-Times."") I
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 201, 25 August 1919, Page 7
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