COAL DEADLOCK

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 230, 23 June 1921, Page 5

COAL DEADLOCK

‘•WE MAY HAVE TO BEND TO INEVITABLE FORCES” ADMISSION BY MINERS’ SECRETARY By Telegraph—Pre«» Aaaooiation—Oopyright London, June 21. Mr. Trank Hodges (secretary of the Miners' Federation), addressing the Labour Conference at Brighton, said, ho believed that the miners in fighting their own battle were helping the workers generally in what would be their subsequent battles. But the miners' investigations indicated that the trade union movement for the most part was, unhappily, a mere grouping of close corporations, with only their own particular interests at heart. This had a markedly increasing tendency. The failure of the Triple Alliance was due to the internal structure of trade unionism. The present struggle could not continue indefinitely. The time must come to terminate the sacrifice and suffering. "The leaders have taken a great responsibility upon themselves rather than allow the huge mass of population to go on until chaos and disaster reign, where now discipline, good will, and solidarity prevail. While we may have to bend to inevitable forces, we will not rest content until we achieve politically what we have failed to achieve industrially." —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.