LABOUR TROUBLES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11762, 24 February 1919, Page 8

LABOUR TROUBLES.

DEBATED IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS. UNREST A HEALTHY SIGN. Australian-N.Z. Cable Association London, February 21. The industrial unrest debate was resumed in the House of Lords. Lord Emmott said it would ba a hard struggle in this and succeeding years for Britain to keep her place in industrial competition, if she failed her commercial and financial supremacy would be gone for ever. Immense damage had been dona to the export trade by the blockade. For instance, we Hiad forced conn tries adjacent to Germany to manufacture £coods which we formerly’suppliod. Only ,by increasing exports could higher wagea be paid. Ha waa convinced the total excess prolit paid to the wealthier classes had not exceeded a hundred millions while (ho name classes paid out over a hundred and fifty millions. On the other hand wages had doubled. Workers were receiving between seven hundred and fifty thousand and one million more than before the war. Lord Loverholtne said unrest waa the healthiest sign in the country. At the present tim» there was no unrest ot the Bolshevik tpyo among returned soldiers. It was a deplorable face that salaries had not advanced during the war except where strikes occurred. Ho could not see how they could conscientiously deprive men of the right to strike. There was no reason to be afraid of Labour. Nowhere bad strikes been more elVoclively bandied than in Australia under Labour Government. He reminded the workers that if they bad received the whole of ttiw piolL* during the war, wages would only have advanced ten shillings instead of a pound weekly. The workers were acting against their own interests by limiting output. Thu country must produce ho cheaply that articles could bo sold throughout the world Wage were higher in the United State tiaoauso the “workets did not uis courage output. AN IND USTUAVj GO UN OH L. VOTING BY MINERS. London, Feb 22 it is expected that sewn hundred delegates will attend the National industrial Uouncil. Reports from various coalfields indicate tint ouiy 57 per cent of tbe miners ate voting. A TRYING TIME DR.ED.tUTK D. London, February 22. Tbe otr'eago News' Prague cones poudeut interviewed Maearyk, who said: “There will be a trying time for the new uatloualitua until next harvest. After that we should be self supporting. Difficulties are now caused by Uck of rolling stock with which - to transport commodities.’’ DEMANDS OF GAN A DI AN SOLDIKRB. Ottawa, Feb 21 A great meeting of the War Veterans' Association of Calgary carried a resolution threatening to take possession of all desirable Government lauds within thirty days unless the Government makes laud grants to relurne.t soldiers.