LESSON FROM STRIKE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 5 July 1921, Page 5

LESSON FROM STRIKE

MUST SETTLE DOWN TO WORK

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, July 4.

Mr J. H. Thomas, M-P., 6peaking •«t the annual conference of the National Union of Railway men, urged "i;he railwaymen "to grasp the lesson of "the coal strike. Rumours were prevalent that the railwaymen must prepare for anpther strike, but the real lesson '■for them and all others was that they must settTe down to the country's work. Peace demanded that the trade union policy -which checked the source -of credit was a mistake.

"It is mistakenly explained that industrial strife is the first step toward "the realsatTon of an industrial rom--monwealth, but those countenancing "this find it an' inheritance not worth "inheriting," he added. He saw no "warrant for the belief that another '•crisis would follow railway decontrol fin August.