BRITISH WORKERS
CO-OPERATION URGED CHANGE FOR BETTER FORECASTED LIMIT OF IMPROVED CONDITIONS NOT REACHED (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) Rugby, January 25. Speaking last night the Hon. Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour Government, said that he anticipated the conference with employers would effect a great change for the better in industrial relations. There was only the extreme minority among the workers M*o refused to accept the responsibility of co-operation in industry. He said that he could conceive no folly more colossal than the possibility of some sudden and revolutionary act to change the existing industrial system and then immediately to build up and erect a new and a superior industrial order. Progress was not made in that way. The true class division to-day was not between employers and workmen but between those who put their own selfish interests foremost and those who were willing to sacrifice their individual interests for the common good. To say that the lot of the wage-earning class could not be improved under the existing system was sheer nonsense. Improvement in the past had been won, not by fighting but by co-operation among the workers and the limit of improvement under the existing order had not been reached.—British Official Wireless.
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Southland Times, Issue 20396, 27 January 1928, Page 7
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