BRITISH COALITION.
. LABOUR’S ATTITUDE. (British Official Wireless) (Rec. 1.2 p.m.) RUGBY, Oct 7. Sir Walter Citrine, speaking at the annual meeting of the Trades Union Congress in reference to the present Coalition Government, said the General Council had tried to preserve an attitude of collaboration and had been able very greatly to shape the policy of the present Government by persistent representation to its colleagues who held Ministerial posts. The General Council realised that the outcome of the war would determine whether the Trades Union Movement as they had known it would continue or be extinguished, and all the way through the council had tried to remember that, as part of the nation, it was their duty to concentrate as much as they could on the successful prosecution of the war. The decision to enter the Government was made by Labour freely of its own choice and lrom its own interest.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 265, 8 October 1940, Page 7
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