SYNDICALISM
MR HUGHES EXPLAINS HIS
VIEW,
MELBOURNE, July 22. The Federal ‘Attorney-General, Mr W. M. Hughes, replying to criticisms of his remarks at tho Victoria Railways Union “social,” explains that he was not speaking so much as to the theory of Syndicalism as that of a general strike. “I did not say that strikes were never justified,” said Mr Hughesj “but, broadly, that rarely, if over, were they the best way of obtaining redress; and certainly they were not a substitute for political action. My remarks referred particularly to the extraordinary tendency of factions inside unions to disregard the decision of majorities.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8180, 23 July 1912, Page 7
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102SYNDICALISM New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8180, 23 July 1912, Page 7
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