DARK DAYS AHEAD.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 7 September 1925, Page 9

DARK DAYS AHEAD.

INDUSTRIAL STORM LOOMING

LUXURY AND UNEMPLOYMENT.

FIGHT WITH THE GLOVES OFF

oY CABLE -PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. Received Sept 7,2 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 6. As a preliminary to the meeting of the Trade Union Congress, held at Scarborough. Mr. Bromley, addressing the engine-drivers, said that he was able to see the first glimmer of the storm which would inevitably become serious. So far trade unionism had been fairly successful, but the capitalist had found many ways of drawing its teeth. The favourite method was to flatter Labour leaders'; giving them fat jobs oil' steady, rich bribes. Many leaders were very susceptible to flattery. Labour, with & united front, could defeat the coming attempt to reduce wages, but a fight was impossible while some leaders had one foot on earth and the other in the clouds. Mr. Bromley oonmlaihed of the appalling glfittohy, extravagance, and luxury which he declared existed, despite widespread unemployment, privation, and distress. He gave as an instance warships detailed to escort the King’s yacht to the Mediterranean, sporting guns weighing on an aggregate ■ 240 tons sent to Scotland for grouse shooting, bloated millionaires spending ‘ and gambling lavishly at Deauville Unemployment was irremediable until the : introduction of a capital levy. “If the railways sist- on cutting wages,” he said, “we will not fight like gentlemen, but with the gloves off. We wiH leave the loco, motives anywhere, without .notice.” Sydney Sun Cable.