INDUSTRIAL PEACE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 March 1925, Page 8

INDUSTRIAL PEACE.

LABOUR VIEWPOINT, iw REPLIES TO MR BALDWIN.'

; . LONDON. March 15. Labour leaders devoted the week-odd. 1 t? speeches replying to Mr Baldwin ’s ;.)eace appeals. dynes declared that, harmony ipyas procurable at. a price, including a o d,ecent standard of living and security ifji work. The oiily sacrifices of the -ipast three years oil behalf of British .•industry liad been made by. wage-, mhriiers, who had lost £700,000,00(1 anthrough wage reductions. If 'Mbw ivages with a minimum were neces4&’ury, why iiot fix a, maximum -profit for ■’capital, which was taking too much out 'jsf industry to enrich those rendering “little service to the community? ~ LONDON, March 16. Mr Thomas, speaking at Cardiff, said: ‘‘lt would be madness to suggest an industrial truce with workers re--ibeiving the .scandalous pay of to-dav, abut if Mr Baldwin means we have sreached the stage when those genuinqf*iy anxious for the future are prepared ”‘t’o examine the facts, riot as‘party men, ■ but as citizens, then I welcome the Tspifit. V « Mr Wheatley, speaking at Glasgow, •‘Said he dicDnot doubt Air Baldwin’s sincerity, but it was foolish to expect “Anything like brotherhood with the 'basis of society. Mr Baldwin’s “appeal was founded on bringing down the cost of production. “My criticism is,- that, industry ,'is not carried on in gceordance with the Sermon on the Mount. Mr Baldwin’s appeal is mere air and has no solid foundation. . The workers want a higher, not a lower, standard of Jiving. ”