FOMENTING A GENERAL STRIKE.
SPEECHES BY LABOUR LEADERS
Since the transport workers' strike the membership of the unions has rapidly increased, and 250,000 aro now enrolled. Tho Syndicalist element is fomenting a general strike for a minimum wasei
Mr W. Thorne, speaking at Blackfriars, said that if the coal strike continued for sis weeks all trade would be bankrupt.
Mr F. Hall, Labour JI.P., speaking at Rotherham, said the miners would not resume until tho Bill was passed, and then only for a month pending the fixing of. district figures.
Mr V. Grayson, speaking at Crewe, said he had received hundreds of letters from soldiers declaring that they would refuse to shoot at strikers if ordered to do so.
Mr Tom Mann, in a speech at Birmingham, said that unless the Government was prepared to compel the mineowners to grant the minimum wage he would urge the railwaymen and transport workers to strike.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14307, 19 March 1912, Page 7
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