BRITISH LABOUR LEADER.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16502, 1 August 1919, Page 3

BRITISH LABOUR LEADER.

GIVES SOUND ADVICE. ON THE NEED FOR STEADY WORK By Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyright. LONDON, July 30. Mr. Thomas, the Labour leader, in a striking interview on his return from. America, said: “Wo are drifting headlong to ruin. Everything I have seen in America in conjunction with even s hero convinces me that iyc shall mon lose our commercial position. unless political methods are drastically changed. Open incitement to violence appears to have become common , i.n Edward Carson on the one hand and the workers on the other. I am dead against this brute force. Such a statement may he- ■unpopular with the lailwaymen’s executive, but the situation is tdo serious for anything except the plainest truths.” , He described the system as rampant sectionalism, by which time and again sectional threats were made to bring the country to its knees. Ihcsc Russian tactics would lead to disaster. Either the country would lose the. greater part of her overseas trade or constitutional government must be restored. . America was gigantically preparing to capture onr trade. The English sovereign steadily depreciated, and America would soon' be in a position to hold the Empire to ransom, unless Britain buckled to and produced vast quantities of manufactures at cheap prices. Mr. Thomas entreated the Government to show courage and prevent chaos. The interview is interpreted in some quarters as an intimation that moderate labourites will enter upon a campaign for the election of a labour government, transferring the issue to tho political arena.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.