"GOVERNMENT MUST HELPOR ELSE"--Union Leader
(N.Z.P. A.--Renter—Copyright.) (11.15 a.m.) LONDON, April 7. Mr. Mark Hewitson, the leader of Britain’s second largest trade union, told Parliament at the resumption of the debate on the Budget that the Budget would lead to a “spate of wage increase applications.’’
He said that if the Government said no to the applications “there will be industrial disputes such as there has never been in this country since the end of the First World War,” he added.
"We are not. going to allow the Trades Union Congress’ back to be broken. If necessary, we shall fight and the Government can not afford to fight against us, who represent the organised workers of the country. “I give a warning that the writing is on the wall. The Government has either got to help—or else. “If this Government is going to depress us below the line of safety, we shall fight for it as we did in the past against the Tories and the Tory employers.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22917, 8 April 1949, Page 5
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