TRADES UNION CONGRESS.
COAL GRISTS DOMINANT FACTOR. BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Sept. 6. In preparation for the fifty-eighth Trades Union Congress on Monday, 700 delegates have assembled at Bournemouth. The coal crisis .was the dominant, interest of all sections. Tlie leaders addressed a public demonstration, at which Air ‘Bovin (Dockers’ Union) said: “Wc will need fewer unions and more union, for if the coal industry is allowed to carry on during the next five years in;, the slipshod manner which has prevailed since 1921, the same crisis is hound to recur. Discipline is needed., not merely in strikes, but in ending strikes.” Air Ben Turner .sa id he hoped a general strike would not be needed again. “The best national strike,” he ’ said, “that this and any other country can indulge in is. at the haillot-ibox, guided by reason, intelligence and humanity.” The newspapers anticipate that the Communists' will force an immediate discussion on the general strike.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 7 September 1926, Page 5
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158TRADES UNION CONGRESS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 7 September 1926, Page 5
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