WOMAN M.P. WARNS OF LABOUR CRISIS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17833, 29 April 1926, Page 5

WOMAN M.P. WARNS OF LABOUR CRISIS.

TRADE UNIONISTS URGED TO PREPARE FOR FIGHT. LONDON, April 11. Urging English trade unionists to get Teady for the ” crisis.” Miss Ellen Wilkinson. of Manchester, Labourite member of Parliament, declares in a state ment published here tlvat the final objective of the Trade Union movement in this country must be the destruction of the Government so that the workers may come into absolute power. Victory in the struggle thus envisaged will be impossible, she pointed out. unless a definite campaign of

action is decided on in advance and strictly adhered to. There is too much quarrelling, she believes, over minor questions “ when the whole question of capitalism and Socialism is at stake.” ” <”an we not, all of us,” said Miss Wilkinson’s appeal. “ make an honest effort to get our internal disputes squared up. so as to present a united front to the common enemy?” “ Let us. then, get out of our little groups and coteries, and rally' around the one body in which men of all groups arc used to working together—the Trade Union movement. The local Trades Council ha* too long a

debating society. Let us make it a fighting reality. And l ct , IS makc our minds to tight, not merely in resistance to the employers' attack, for if we tieat that off now. it will only he renewed a little later. Let us fight for the overthrow of the Government and for the immediate assumption of power by the workers. Short of this t&£ie is no way out"