N.S. WALES LABOR CONGRESS.
STRIKE METHODS USELESS
WIPING OUT CAPITALISM.
(Received June 5, 8.32 a.m.) STDN33T, June 4
The Labor Congress has opened. Mr D. Watson, in his presidential address, said that all unionists were aspiring to one grand purpose—the right of the worker to enjoy the fruit of his own labor. In advocating a federation of labor, he declared that the need to-day was to make strikes absolutely unnecessary. He trusted they would cherish the idea that strikes were obsolete weapons. The experience of Lithgow should make them shudder at the thought of what a general strike would mean. He concluded: "If our country is in the hands of capitalists, it will be our duty to free it and possess it as our own."
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Northern Advocate, 5 June 1912, Page 5
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