COAL STRIKE BLUNDER
OUTSPOKEN UNION LEADER. LONDON, September 29. _ Mr Havelock .Wilson, in his presidential address at tho annual conference of tho National Union of Sailors and Firemen to-day, said that tho leaders of the Minors’ Federation had admitted to him that the miners’ strike •was one of tho most colossal blunders they had ever made. It could have been prevented without an hour’s stoppage. Unemployment could only bo solved by the revival of commerce, and mutual confidence and co-opcrstion between tho employer and his workmen. Doles merely led io further unemployment. There were extremists who did not want things to improve. They wanted more unemployment, starvation, and turmoil, leading to “ glorious revolution.” That did not help the working people. Tho ideas of those fools and madmen in, no way reflected the feeling of the working classes of England. When tho war had finished the trades union movement should have endeavored to make a good compromise with tho employers for industrial peace. '•
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Evening Star, Issue 17792, 14 October 1921, Page 4
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162COAL STRIKE BLUNDER Evening Star, Issue 17792, 14 October 1921, Page 4
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