TO OUST WILSON
WALSH DECLINES TO GO
"GREATEST INDUSTRIAL. FAILURE
SINCE 1919."
(Received 29th August, 11 a.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day. At the fourth mass meeting of British seamen, Mr, Walsh, referring to recent statements that he intended to go to England to assume control of the British Seamen's Union, said there would be no necessity to provide funds for a jaunt round the world for him in order to show Havelock Wilson what could be done. He declined to go to England to do that.
He said that Wilson was the greatest industrial failure in the history of the working class since 1919. Ho had-made no effort to stop the downward trend of their wages and conditions. With such an organisation as the British Seamen's Union, it was a standing disgrace that men had to fight twelve thousand miles from the centre of the Empire against a reduction. of wages. He would only accept the position, if he desired it, of president of the British Seamen's Union on condition that he could appoint all the officers. Otherwise they would still be betrayed.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 52, 29 August 1925, Page 7
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182TO OUST WILSON Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 52, 29 August 1925, Page 7
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