ORGANISATION OF STRIKES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17296, 21 October 1919, Page 7

ORGANISATION OF STRIKES.

CO-OPERATIVE ALLIANCE.

AID GIVEN TO RAILWAYMEN.

PLANS FOR THE FUTURE.

By Telecraph—Press Association—Copyright.

(Received 8 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON. Oct. 19. Mr. H. Gosling, President of the I Transport Workers' Federation, in | a speech in London, revealed that I an intimate relationship existed between the Trades Union and coj operative movements existed durjing the railway strike, which I enabled the trades unions to organise the distribution of £600,000 ' through the Co-operative Bank | three days after the Government's ; announcement of the stopping of the I railwaymen's back pay. If the strike | had continued food would have been similarly distributed to the strikers' families. Mr. Gosling said that it would I surprise many people if they knew how quickly machinery was established during the recent strike to feed people through the co-opera-tive movement. More would be ' done in this direction in the future. Ultimately, when the workers desired to get rid of capitalists and profiteers, they would do it without a fight, because the co-operative ' movement would become the em-

ployers. Mr. R. Williams, General Secretary of the Transport Workers' Federation, in a speech at Newport, criticised the railwaymen's tactics of striking without informing the Triple Labour Alliance of the progress of the negotiations. If the Alliance had been consulted the strike might have been avoided.