STRIKES AND CO-OPERATION.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 250, 21 October 1919, Page 5

STRIKES AND CO-OPERATION.

.__ TRADES UNION ALLIANCE. FINANCE AND DISTRIBUTION. LONDON, October 20. Mr. H. Gosling, president of the Transport Workers' Federation, in a speech in London, revealed that an intimate relationship existed between the Trades Union and co-operative movements during the railway strike, which enabled the trades unions to organise the distribution of £000,000 through the Co-operative Bunk three days lifter the Government's announcement of the stopping of the rail- ! wnymen's back pay. If the strike had continued food would have been similarly distributed to the strikers' families. Mr. Gosling said that it would surprise many people if they knew how quickly machinery wne <-6tnbli«hd during the recent strike to feed people through tho co-operative movement. More would be done in this direction in the future. I'ltimately, when the workers desired to get rid of capitalists and profiteers, they would do it without a tight, beause the ' co-operative movement would become the ' employer. . Mr. R. Willirms, general secretary of: the Transport Workers' Federation, in a speech at Newport, criticised the rail-wa'-'meii's tactics of striking without inj f >rming tho Triple Labour Alliance of the progress of the negotiations. If the I Alliance had been consulted the strike 1 might have been avoided. — (A. and N.Z.)