IN BRITISH INDUSTRY

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 63, 17 March 1925, Page 5

IN BRITISH INDUSTRY

WHAT THE WORKERS WANT

LABOUR- LEADERS REPLY TO MR BALDWIN^

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(AUSIRALUN-NEW ZE.IUXD CABU ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 15th March.

The Labour leaders devoted the week, end to speeches replying to Mr. Baldwin's peace appeals.

Mr. J. K. Clynes declared that harmony was procurable at a price, including a decent standard of living and security in work. The only sacrifices of the past three years on behalf of British industry had been made by the wa^eearners who Jost 700 millions, annually through wage reductions. If J ow wa-es was the minimum necessary, why not "fix a maximum profit for capital, which was taking too much out of industry, in order to enrich those rendering little service to the community? "a-.^'Ja B.:T? hom fj ,sP^king at Cardiff, said: "It would be madness to suggest an- industrial truce, with the workers receiving the scandalous pay of to-day, but if Mr. Baldwin means that we have reached the stage when those genuinely anxious for the future are prepared to examine the facts, not as party men, but as citizens, then I welcome the spirit." Mr. J Wheafcley, speaking at Glasgow said he did not doubt Mr Bald wms sincerity, but it would be'foolish to expect anything like brotherhood wth the present basis of society. Mr Bald win s appeal was founded on brin<nn" down the coat of production. 4ly criticism IS that industry is not carried mere air, and has no solid foundation Sta'Msjv hWwp-not a w