DAWES REPORT

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 September 1924, Page 5

DAWES REPORT

VIGOROUS ATTACK,

FEAR OF GERMANY,

8T CABLB -fBESa ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, Sept. 22. Mr Frank Hodges (Oiv.il Lord of the Admiralty), speaking at Tamworth, in a vigorous attack on the Dawes report, said that reparations might be good polities, but they were certainly bad economics. Germany could deal the deadliest blow to the Allies by fulfilling the report. German coal delivered to France, Belgium and Italy will always be sold at. a fraction below the British price, so if any was sold it would be at a price which would scarcely allow’ British collieries to live.

In order to pay reparations the German workers w r ere being driven to abandon their hard-earned victories in the fight for reasonable conditions of employment. The god of’ reparations must be appeased, even if the whole European Lbcur movement was flung to the altais of sacrifice. Nov r the German workers have succumbed to the British capitalists’ squealing for hours to be lengthened and W’ages lowered.

ACCEPTED BY INDEPENDENT LABOUR, Received Sept. 23, 9.15 a.mV LONDON, Sept 22. The Daily Herald quotes a speech made by Mr. Brockway, leader of the Independent Labour Party during a visit to Berlin. In this he said that the party aceepterd the Daw r es plans as a temporary expedient, but when Socialism triumphed in Britain, France, and Germany the Dawes plan and the Versailles Treaty would be swept aside as unjust and impossible documents.