SYNDICALISM IN WALES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 94, 20 April 1912, Page 10

SYNDICALISM IN WALES.

, .The growth of syndicalism in South , Wales and its bearing on the minimumwage agitation is stVikiugly illustrated by a pamphlet, entitled "The Miners' Next Step," published in tho Western Mail. The pamphlet, , which wae pub.lished at Honypardy early in th© year, but has now been withdrawn, advocates , the formation of a South Wales Miners' Industrial Organisation, for the purpose * of carying out a policy of open hostility to the employers with a view to eliminating them altogether and establishing an industrial democracy. To thie .end it is _ suggested that the lodges of the organisation should ."as far as pod wible discard the old method of coming out on strike for any little minor grievunce, and adopt the more scientific ' we-afton of the irritation strike by simply remaining at work, and so contrive by 1 their general conduct to make the col1 liery unremunerative." The minimum <, wage is the first objective, but after it I is secured a continual agitation must be i carried on in favour of reducing the if working hours from eight to seven, while the minimum wage remains untouched, ' so that the output per man will be reduced and the profits of the coalowner and the income of /th© share- ! 1 holders will disappear.