GREAT BRITAIN.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 9, Issue 349, 16 January 1918, Page 1

GREAT BRITAIN.

In consequence of information received from Plymouth, tlue Huddersfield Trades and.Labor Council invited the Executive pf the local Labor and Socialist Party to confer on the introduction of Chinese laborers in England. After discussion, the following resolution was unanimously agreed to: "This joint meeting of the Huddersfield Combined Labor Movement, representing every section of working class activity in this town, enters its indignant protest against the introduction of Chinese labor into Plymouth, and into England, and calls upon the Government to at once withdraw this obnoxious class of labor from the British labor market. We consider it to be a grave menace to the future social progress of this country, and feel that it is best to leave the yellow race to work out its own salvation, in its own country, and in its own way." Representatives of 200,000 machinery workers recently held a conference in Leeds, to discuss the recent award of 3s. a week increase made by the committee on production, and. which was regarded as unsatisfactory. A resolution' was passed demanding a reduction of 50 per cent, in the price of the necessaries of life. Resolutions were 'also passed in favor of a national minimum rate of wages, a seven-hour day and five-day