WORKERS' CONDITIONS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 63, 8 December 1920, Page 7

WORKERS' CONDITIONS

WAY TO OBTAIN IMPROVEMENT THROUGH BALLOT BOX; NOT BY BLOODY UPHEAVAL Sr Telozmrh-Pre«» ABSoofalton-OoDyrtcM London, December C.. Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P., addressing Use lailwayincu at Plymouth, declared lb;;I there must ho n radical improvement in ths conditions of the working classes. He contotuled that the most sensible way to accomplish it was through tho ballot box, and not by a bloody upheaval. He declared that his previous speech had been misinterpreted; lie did not intend it as a threat of coming trouble.—Renter. [At the International Conference of Rnihvnynien in London on November SO, Mr. Thomas, in welcoming the foreign .delegates, said tho workers were determined that the wounds of war must be healed, and reconciliations with their late enemies effected. The struggle was not yet ended. There would bo a big fight m this country in the next few months over the new stand which the railwaymen were going to make to hold the Government to its promise to admit railwaymen to ftie management of-the railways.] SEAMEN'S STO'ORK MEETING TO CONSIDER, DIPORTANT BUSINESS. Sydney, December 7. The seamen have called a stop-work meeting ~0-day to discuss what it is stated aro "domestic matters." It ia known, However, Katimportant business is coming under that hcaiUjig, and it is impossible to say what will lie the outcome of "he meeting.—Press Assn.