BRITISH UNION LEADER SPEAKS AGAINST WAR TALK
LONDON, October 16. “Only the invasion of Britain would justify ‘another war,” said Mr E. J. Hill, general secretary of the Boilermakers’ Union in his monthly report. “If the United States and the Soviet want to go to war, let them, but we must not allow this country to be drawn in and used as a huge base for bomber aircraft. , “It is better that our shipyards should be empty and that we may live in peace, than to see the. shipyards building ships to full capacity for destruction. Don’t be gulled by warmongers. There must not be another war. The workers must rise in their might before it is too late.” . Mr Hill, who succeeded Sir Mark Hodgson as general secretary of the union last March, is a member of the general council of the Trade Union Congress. ..
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 October 1948, Page 6
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