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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 31 October 1928, Page 11

“It lias been calculated that 6ver tTio two' seasons 1920-2 S and 1926-2/ the English co'al and general strikes, by their effect upon the prices obtained for our wool, meat, butter and cheese, cost this country in the ’neighbourhood of £3,000,000,” said the Hon. T. Shailer Weston at the conference of the New Zealand Employers’ Fedeai’tion. “Unemployment relief in New Zealand during the last two years must have cost- the State, local authorities, and private individuals about £1.1500,000. If the £3.000,000 lost to our orodueers through these disastrous strikes had been in _ their pockets, available to be spent in improvements and other directions, how much less unemployment there would have heen arid what a saving of public funds. We have here a. very striking instance of the disastrous effect of labour troubles.”