GUERRILLA WARFARE
IN COAL INDUSTRY. MR A. J. COOK’S THREATS. MINERS NOT YET BEATEN. 3Y CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGIIT. LONDON, Nov. 1. Mr A. J. Cook, secretary to the Miners ’ Federation, speaking at Liverpool, warned the nation that “if you drive the miners back to longer hours they won’t work them. They will go down into the pits, but they will destroy more than they construct. They will fight guerilla warfare, and will continue the battle more than ever. “If the miners are forced back to work at a bayonet point of starvation it won’t do the owners any good. The miners are not yet beaten; there is a ivorld shortage of coal and economic conditions are in the miners ’ favour. ’' Mr Cook made an appeal to the miners not to be routed, so that they might not degenerate into a rabble tobe massacred by the Government and owners. “If,” he said, “the trade unions refuse to back the miners, the latter may be compelled to reconsider their position.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 2 November 1926, Page 5
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