TO PREVENT WAR.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 254, 23 September 1933, Page 7

TO PREVENT WAR.

USE OF THE GENERAL STRIKE. The Manchester Guardian says the anti-war resolution which the General Council of the Trade Union Congress has undertaken to consider, and proposed by the International Federation of Trades Unions, differs from previous pious denunciations of war, as it provides a concrete plan to prevent an outbreak of hostilities. It requires a general strike, before mobilisation, as afterward the welfare of the recruited men’s relatives becomes the only consideration of most working-class families. The refusal of a nation to accept arbitration would automatically result in a general strike, and, where no free unions exist, as under a dictatorship, the workers of other countries would institute a boycott. _ The scope of the resolution is exemplified in the Sino-Japanese conflict, where, if the resolution were generally adopted, it would mean a general boycott of Japan.