THE DEBATE IN HOUSE OF LORDS
INDUSTRY ALARMED AND ' NERVOUS. Router's TelegranmLONDON, February 20. The House of Lords resumed the debate on the industrial unrest. Lord Leverhulmo (formerly Sir Milium Lever) declared that Bolshevism was not a deep-rooted emotion in tins country but was carried on by men who had resisted military service and who had proved bad citizens in war time. There was no need to fear Labour. Industrial unrest wou-d be always with us, if we were to lie a healthy community, as it was merely the expression of the workers' aspirations lifting them to higher things. Workers' wages during the war had risen five times more than their employers' profits. The workers' increase on a pro rata basis would have been under ten shillings a week. The Earl of Crawford, replying on behalf of tho Government, declared that, industry was stagnant; it was alarmed and nervous. Every nerve must be strained to re-establish the export trade. The debate was adjourned.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10211, 22 February 1919, Page 7
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