SUICIDAL INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 151, 23 March 1925, Page 9

SUICIDAL INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT

“NO GREATER CALAMITY”

WARNING BY BRITISH LABOUR LEADER

By Telegraph—Press Association Oapvh inrr-« (Rec. March 22, 5.5 p.m.) London, March 21. ' In a significant speech in his constituency (Aberavon), Mr. J. R. MacDonald said that there was talk of the miners, railwaymen, and engineers acting together. There could be no greater calamity than to have a great block of unions on one side and capital on the other engaged in suicidal industrial conflict. He wanted to see combinations of workers demanding their rights, but meanwhile so doing their dutv that public opinion would see them through their difficulties.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

UNREASONABLE DEMANDS “MEN SEEM TO HAVE LOST THEIR HEADS” Melbourne, March 21. Mr. Appleton, chairman of directors, at the annual meeting of the HuddartI’arker Company, stated that the position after twenty years of conciliation and arbitration, was that there were more strikes, more industrial trouble, and a great distrust which previously did not exist between employer and employee.

His latest letter from England stated that the men seem to have lost their heads entirely. Demands were unreasonable, in fact idiotic. The men did not seem to wish to work at all, even on their own terms, and all sorts of tales were told of extreme action and ridiculous behaviour by crews at sea. —Press Assn.