FATEFUL FUTURE.
LABOUR LEADERS’ WARNING. [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Tuesday, 1 a.m.) LONDON, August 24. The quarterly report of the General Federation of Trades Unions contains a warning by the management ' committee. signed by Mr Appleton. It says that the period from November to May next will be fateful, perhaps tragic, unless sanity returns , and production increases. Avoidable strikes have been precipitated and the union funds have been needlessly dissipated. Borne strikes distinctly were of political origin. Such strikes must fail or end in revolution. They were not against the capitalist but against the community. Against such strikes the Government must protect the people, or surrender their functions. In view of the national situation and the possibility of a grave shortage, it was imperative that trades unions should face tho fact that though the war is over, competition is forcefully operating, and that food and raw material must be brought from countries over whose merchants our Government has not control, and that these commodities must bo paid for ia goods, and not paper.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 14199, 26 August 1919, Page 5
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175FATEFUL FUTURE. Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 14199, 26 August 1919, Page 5
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