COST OF THE STRIKE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 18 May 1926, Page 7

COST OF THE STRIKE

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NO ADDITIONAL TAXES, EARLY RETURN TO NORMALITY MR. CHURCHILL’S STATEMENT. BT CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. Received 2.25 p.m to-day. LONDON, May 17. In the House of Commons, answering questions with regard to the cost of the strike, Mr. "Winston Churchill said that at present he saw no reason arising from the strike to propose additional taxation. He did not anticipate any appreciable disturbance in the current financial year as a result of the strike, the effect of which could not accurately be estimated. The Government’s direct expenditure possibly would not be large, and in some cases there would be countervailing receipts and saving on ordinary expenditure. Air. Churchill did not anticipate that the expenditure on food transport would exceed three-quarters of a million, and might be less. The effect on direct taxation would mainly appear in next year’s estimates, and any loss of profits might be made up by increased trade activity in the interval. He assumed that the coal stoppage would not be greatly prolonged, and that there would be an early return to normality. He saw no j reason to propose additional taxation. [ —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. TRADE UNION COUNCIL. CRITICISED BY LABOUR LEADER. Received 2.25 p.m. to-day. LONDON, May 17. Mr F. B. Varley, leader of the Notts miners, speaking in his constituency (Mansfield) criticised the Trade Union Council for the dreadful debacle of the general, strike. He never dreamed the calling off of the strike would have assumed the spectacle of abject surtender. He had never been regarded as Red, and he hoped miners would row tell him to return to London and make the best terms possible for them. A. and N.Z. Assn. HELP FOR THE MINERS. RUSSIAN GIFT ACCEPTED. Received 2.25 p.m. to-day. LONDON, May 17. Referring to the report that the Miners’ Federation had received a cablegram from the Russian Miners, Congress offering the first instalment of £260,000 collected by Russian trade unions to assist the wives and families of British miners, Mr. Coofi said he had appealed for funds to relieve distress, from anywhere and anybody, and certainly he would be pleased, to accept the money from the Russian mine workers. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. WORKERS SETTLING DOWN. INDUSTRY RETURNING TO NORMAL. - Received 2.45 p.m. to-day. / LONDON, May 17. V Britain has re-donned dungarees and Nhe wheels are going round almost at full pressure. Strikers are taken back as circumstances permit, and 50 per cent, of the railwaymen are working. The London dockers resumed to the inspiring strains of drums and fifes, which played off the guardsmen who were on strike duty. The Tyneside has settled down to Work with North Country canniness. Four thousand men are idle in Manchester owing to a hitch regarding the employment of non-unionists. Conditions elsewhere are normal. London evening papers appeared, m complete editions.: —Sydney Sun Cable. COST TO THE RAILWAYS.

THE LAST GENEiRIAIL STRIKE

Received 2.45 p.m. to-day. LONDON, May 1/. Mr. Cramp, speaking at Plymouth, said that tho. strike cost the National Union of Railwayimen £(1,000,000 and the railway companies £5,500,000. A general strike would never occur again because it was impossible to carry it out effectively. If it were earned to a logical conclusion trade unons would be starved and [paralysed as well as everybody else. The railway unions had saved their lives by accepting the companies’ terms.—Sydney Sun Cable.