SOMBRE SHADOW

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 6 September 1927, Page 9

SOMBRE SHADOW

OVER MINING INDUSTRY POVERTY OF THE WORKERS LABOUR ’S TASK IN BRITAIN BY CABLE- PRESS ASSOCIATION--COPYRIGHT. Received 12.20 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Sept. 5. Mr. George flicks, in his presidential address at the Trade’s Union Congress, at Edinburgh, assailed the Trades Union Bill as a futile attempt to suppress sympathy with and the growth of class consciousness, despite protestations. The shadow over the mining industry was blacker, more sombre and more ominous than ever. Poverty was worse and over a million people were living precariously on poor relief, yet in 192425 59,415 earned an aggregate of £517,000,000. Labour’s task in remedying this lay in the developing of political activity, to confer on the people the real ownership and control of Britain and her resources. A conference of the organisations of the employers and the employed would do more than the Government’s vague industrial peace aspiration. Concerning Russia, w’hose methods sometimes showed crude arrogance, Mr. Kicks said that they must remember that her leaders thir»V in terms of the rule they had suffered in previous days.