TO PREVENT WAR

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12078, 18 October 1933, Page 2

TO PREVENT WAR

USE OF THE GENERAL STRIKE

LONDON, September 7. Th'e ‘‘-Manchester Guardian” says the anti-war resolution which the General Council of the Trade Union Congress has undertaken to consider, and proposed by the International Federation of Trade Unions, differs from previous pi on*. denunciations of war, as it provides a concrete plan to prevent an outbreak of hostilities. It requires a general strike, before mobilisation, as afterward the welfare of the recruited men’s relatives becomes the only consideration of most working-class families. The refusal of a nation to accept arbitration would automatically result in a general strike, where no free union exists, as under a dictatorship, the workers of other countries would institute a boycott. The scope of th'e resolution is exemplified in the Si no-Japanese conflict, where, if the resolution were generally adopted it- would mean a general boycott of Japan.