BRITISH LABOUR.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12776, 21 October 1919, Page 3

BRITISH LABOUR.

LABOUR’S NEW ALLIANCE

LONDON, October 19. Air Gosling, chairman of the Transport "Workers’ Federation, in a speech in London, stated that an intimate relationship existed between tho trade union and co-operative movements during the railway strike, enabling Labour to organise the distribution of £600,000 through the co-operative bank three days after the Goverenment’s announcement stopping the railwayman's back pay. If the strike bad continued food would similarly have been distributed to strikers' families.

Ho added that it would suprise many to know how quickly the machinery was established during the recent strike in order to feed people through the cooperative movement. Alore would bo done in this direction in the futureUltimately when tho workers desired to get rid of tlie capitalists and profiteers they would do it without a fight, because the co-operative movement would become the employer. Mr Robert "Williams, in a speech at Newport, criticised the railway-men's tactics in striking without informing the Triple Alliance of the progress of negotiations. If the Alliance had been consulted the strike might have been avoided.