THE GENERAL STRIKE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17132, 7 September 1926, Page 7

THE GENERAL STRIKE

JUSTIFIED AS A WEAPON LABOR LEADER’S CLAIM WOULD USE IT AGAIN -Elec. IV*I. Copyright— United Press As«ir> (Australian and N Z. Cable Association.) (Received September 7, 11 n.m.) LONDON. Sept. 6. In his presidential address to the Trade l'nion Congress, Mr. Pugh claimed that there was every justification for a general strike -as a weapon. They would not hesitate to use it again if the cireurnstanees warranted it. ANOTHER VIEWPOINT STRIKE AT BALLOT BOX LONDON. Sept. 5. Preparatory to the fifthy-eighth Trades Union Congress on Monday, 700 delegates assembled at Bournemouth. The coal crisis was the dominant interest of all sections. Leaders gave addresses at a public demonstration.

Mr. Bovin said : “W© will need fewer luiions and more union if the coal industry is allowed to carry on for the next five years in the slip-shod maimer pro vailing since 1921. The same crisis is hound to recur. Discipline is needed, not merely in, the strikers; but in ending strikes.” Mr. Ben Turner said that lie hoped the general strike would not be needed again. The best national strike this and any other country could indulge in was at the ballot box, guided by reason, intelligence, and humanity.