A PLAGUE ON BOTH THEIR HOUSES.
"I have been a voluminous writer for a quarter of a century, but I do not think you will find in my writings anywhere a single sentence of blessing upon trade unions," writes H. G. Wells in the Independent. "Collective haggHng and striking on the part of the workers is the answering blackness to private profit on the part of the directors of industry, the two blacks that fail to make a white civilisation. As a Socialist, I curse both sides in the economic scramble with all my heart. "If this war should prove , the fiery crucible in which private profit and trade union restrictions are both melted down, if the trade union should emerge no longer as a resisting and restrictive, but as a public and productive organisation with which directive ability has been incorporated, then this war, even if it have no other beneficial results, will not haye beta -vhattsL exiL"* (
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 92, 16 October 1915, Page 14
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159A PLAGUE ON BOTH THEIR HOUSES. Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 92, 16 October 1915, Page 14
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