INDUSTRIAL TRUCE.
WORKERS' SACRIFICES.
LABOUR LEADER'S FEARS
(Received April 10, 8.40 p.m.)
London, April 9,
Addressing a meeting of railwaymen, Mr. J. H. Thomas, Labour member for Derby, said that some sections in Britain had welcomed Mr. Hughes as a Heaven-sent angel. This was largely a political dodge, and there was a danger that he would be made a tool of by the tariff reform party. Many who were now lauding him would not accept his policy of an eight-hour day and old-age pensions. They were significantly silent upon such questions.
• "In addition to a political truce, we must have an industrial truce," he continued. " The workers' splendid sacrifices for the sake of the war must not be made a lever for the oppression of the workers after the war."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16201, 11 April 1916, Page 5
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