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MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE'S GRAVE WARNING. WHAT MUST LEARN.
LONDON, August 24. (Received Aug. 26, at 1 a.m.) The quarterly report of the General Federation of Trades Unions contains a warning by the Management Committee signed by Mr Appleton, secretary. It says: " The period from November to May next will be fateful, perhaps tra°ic, unless sanity returns and production increases. Avoidable strikes have been pre-. cipitated and union funds have been needlessly dissipated. Some strikes have a distinctly political origin. Such strikes must fail or end in revolution. They are not against the capitalist, but against the community. Against such strikes the Government must protect the people or surrender its functions. In view of the national situation and - the possibility of a grave shortage, it is imperative that trades unions should face the facts that the war is over, and competition is forcefully operating; that food and raw material must be bought from countries over whose merchants our Government has no control; and that, these commodities must be paid for in goods, not paper " Renter.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17713, 26 August 1919, Page 5
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