RAILWAYMEN WARNED
NO STRIKE IF MR. THOMAS CAN STOP IT
By 'fßLECiiArjt.— Press Association Copyright.. (Rec. March 23, 7.40 p.m.)
London, March. 23. While addressing a gathering of Glasgow railwaymen, Mr. J. H. Thomas, general secretary ot the National Union of Railwaymen, was frequently interrupted by cries ot “Traitor.” He retorted that if anyone subscribing to Mr. Baldwin’s plea for industrial peace war. accused of being “a traitor,” said, “I come under that category.” Mr. Thomas went on to warn trie railwaymen against assuming that the only possibility is a. strike. “There will not be a strike if I can stop it, he declared. “A mass attack upon capitalists will be an attack upon the community, and will hold the rest of the nation up to ransom. The onlylogical consequence of success would be to take over the government of the country.”—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 152, 24 March 1925, Page 6
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