Workers Of Great Britain Blundered Into General Strike.
By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. (Received June 4, 1 p.m.) LONDON, June .3. Mr Ramsay MacDonald, in a trenchant attack on the general strike as a weapon, in an article in the “Socialist Review,"’ asserts that it has no goal which, when reached, can be regarded as victory. If fought to a finish it would ruin trade unionism, and the Government meantime could create a revolution. Many blamed the General Council of the Trade Union Congress, and others the miners. The real blame was the general strike itself and those who preached it, without consideration, and induced the workers to blunder into it. “ I hope the result will be a thorough reconsideration of Trades Union tactics in large industrial operations, either in offence or defence unplannable by speeches. If the wonderful unity of British Labour, which impressed the world, were shown at the ballot box. Labour could solve most difficulties.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17864, 4 June 1926, Page 9
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