ECONOMIC BREAKDOWN.

Grey River Argus, 7 June 1922, Page 5

ECONOMIC BREAKDOWN.

CLYNES’ MIDDLE-CLASS VIEWS. LONDON, June 5. Mr J. R. Clynes in his presidential address to the National Union of General Workers at Birmingham,' referred to the serious weakness of trades union organisation, arising out of the conflict in degrees of leadership within the unions, through which men, to make room for themselves, had done serious mischief. Mr Clynes declared that the present economic breakdown was due to timidity and ignorance of the state of peace and trade. Prosperity was not to bo found in rival military alliances. It was the. poor who suffered by under-production, and scarcity was the real friend of the profiteer. Under-production had afforded no protection to the workers.