"STRIKE OF TWO MILLIONS."

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 91, 4 June 1912, Page 8

"STRIKE OF TWO MILLIONS."

Mr Vernon Hartshorn, addressing a mass meeting of miners at Maesteg on April 8, said that in future the workers of the country must regard themselves as one body. He believed that directly the miners returned to work great pressure would be brought to bear upon the Government to introduce legislation to deprive the working class of its strike power. Preparations must be made to meet that emergency at once. He believed that within a few months they would have a strike in which not one million but two million persons would be engaged to win a national eight-hour day and a national minimum wage. The necessity had arisen for a union between transport workers, railwaymen and miners and the early part of the coming summer would see a strike of the transport workers.