INDUSTRIAL PEACE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 10 March 1928, Page 9

INDUSTRIAL PEACE

MOVEMENT IN ENGLAND “A DANGEROUS DEVELOPMENT” A SOVIET DECLARATION. IY CABLE- PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 11.45 a.m. to-day. LONDON, March 9. The Riga correspondent of “The Times” says: “The industrial peace movement in England is> one of the dangerous recent developments, and ruthless war must be declared on it,” declares a resolution of the Soviet international executive. “English communists must strive their utmost to gan control of the strike machinery.” CHAOS IN SOVIET INDUSTRY. Meanwhile the Soviet’s _ Supreme Economic Council, representing Stateowned industries, has conferred with the central council of trade unions in an effort to establish its own peace. 1 For the first time industrial conflict has been openly avowed. M. Tomsky, the trade union leader, admitted that this, the first attempt at a joint conference, had been a. failure, but he scolded his colleagues for defending their own petty interests instead of viewing the dispute from a national standpoint. “The chaos in Soviet industry is due to the scarcity of skilled technicians,” he said. “Unless we import foreign engineers wo cannot get along.”— “Times.”