BRITISH LABOUR TROUBLES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11927, 22 October 1919, Page 5

BRITISH LABOUR TROUBLES.

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph —Copyright. Reuter. Loudon, Oct. 20. Mr Smellie, at 13ristol, said that the miners claimed, and intended to have, a fair share of the executive control of mines. Mr Harry Gosling said that he was not prepared again to confer with the employers unless the latter realised that an employee was no longer a slave, but a partner. Mr Gosling added that arrangements were being perfected to give workmen a better chance of lighting in future, including feeding them and their families by co-operative sociMr Robert Williams, at Newport, said that the Government and the employers could make up their minds that the workers would not accept anv reduction in earnings. Sir J.. H. Thomas, speaking at Derby, emphasised that the right to strike was Labour’s greatest bargaining power, which could not be relinquished. The railwaymen requested a share in the management of the railways, and he invited the Government to consider the proposal. The railwaymeu’s request was on the ground that they could contribute experience, brains and capacity to of the railways, which would be valuable to the whole country. of the engineering and shipbuilding Trade Unions interviewed Mr Horne and demanded that the present rates be stabilized for another year as already conceded to the railwaymen. Mr Horne will consult the Cabinet end the employers. The Times. , The Government is preparing a national scheme of compulsory unemployment insurance on a contributory basis, hoping to abolish costly doles. The foundations of the new system are already laid in engineering and other precarious trades.