Poverty Bay Herald. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, MONDAY, SEPT. 13, 1930. BRITISH INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15317, 13 September 1920, Page 2

Poverty Bay Herald. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, MONDAY, SEPT. 13, 1930. BRITISH INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.

"An industrial strike for political reasons", is , Sir Robert Home's tersesummary 'of the', great inHustrJa) -struggle '• which seem? about . to - break over the British Isles. ■■ In other words, the issue ;. of tire conflict: is whether ,6reat- Britain' shall . be governed from Westminster or from Eccleston Square, whether its managing directors shall be men' chosen of the people by* constitutional means; of men elected by the, mob. ' ;The " dispute which threatens to throw the "whole industrial machinery of the United Kingdom oufc of action is not a mere matter of \yages,, anomalies m which could easily be\ settled, but m, addition «U their t wag«s demands the miners w»nj> to dictate the selling price of the com--modity which they: handle, demanding tnat mere should be a reduction of l<fs. 2d. m the price of coal to the consumer, -the principle, involved is the same, as that which arose over tiie appointment, of a Gouncii of -Action— dictation— arid' if - followed to its legitimate course •would evolve a state ;ox aifairs similar to that now ruling m Itaiy, where the workers are taking the '-. revolutionary '" course' of attempting to gam possession v i>lthegreat industrial enterprises ,of the country, li the coal miners, who- are the .best. paid workers m Britain, were permitted to put a p.stoi at the head of the' community, not only to secure better wages, but to determine m what way the Brtcsh consumer and taxpayer shall or .shall not benefit from. the. profits on exported coal, then ' a/ tremendous blo\r vvou,d,be delivered at all industrial enterprise,; and we should :. have; > strikes originating m .numerous other "avenues or employment to determine. . seliin" prices and to limit .the proMs av&iJabie to .manufacturers,: if an y, after taxation has been paid. The. result would: ■ W that "*?** men w-ho'had capital^ invesfc of assisting^ to develop British industry and to give- ' employment , to more workers w^uld put their mon# into war .bonds, , and British industrial expansron would cease. 'It^ttas -already been pointed out. m these columns -how senousljt Britwh fcbnimer^ j a the coal problem. The rtdub£M r o f ou^t ami the high price. of dilate hampered industries m. every direction and^ are^ having- * reqlly l influence on , British; transpor^tioh^ giving, our competitors mi n the^Grid's^ mark e tl an, enormous advantage. Now, -ft 'a . stnk^ eventuates *nd industries ate? tied $J?L-n* *' P erha P s niohths, theofor-eigner-Oerman as well iasAmeriean^ii rS*^"? *> th e ;> indußtrlal "nposed on the. nation, for Bri&h^is now m a fair way to. right trade balances aod.to pug down4h^dveWK a iL&T* *"*"**■ cabling her S ,qndat c her enormous war liabilities ; but with puch a cataclysm v as is threaten* , ed she will JSse markets, add to her 1 S 6 V f *£*• " nd "^mploymenrniust s£aUc through the land; ? Wd toeSe that sane men among tte^afeSrs well know what th? :--coriS£e£ and , outcome O f the cbnflicV^uld b? One S 1; M J A PP let^ h^ had- the course iL? Pca * ,°, ufc - iterance conveys a gleam of h6pe {hat*- fatal criiMmaJ te '^n^i^ il J s P^cipitated tnegboS • !r f ? 6 nation way, cause it. t?b2 ■ short-lived. English people wa f aM . *™, will mbr! tolefffen^^ menace to the national security from a .Labor Committee -than they would 'from ah unconstitutional sovereign " Th* miners' leaders are endeavoring to, show , duce the .cost of. Uvfng and -are hopS T ohJn*^* I**™1 **™ " pri^ reductW^ i «^i PP w v SU PP° rt > the coming, struggle,, but however popular for the .must realise/ when it^gives Mmgh£< W !, -matter that /airepf aotiof^S nature i s utterly^ -unconstitutional and bound to t be disastrous. If there is >? Be any. limitation of prices -it. mtjst.be i tr,n» ' y rh l me^ after full and fair enquuy. Trades union demagogues mar seek*,.to . ampose their mpgn/the pation^but.it is N the will of . th e^ebp" J. «s a whole; expressed m a cpnstittttiortal manner, that^must.be supreme I;.'1 ;.' <sthert^grated, chaotic: and bankrupt coftditidn of Russia. i