MINORITY VIEW

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 April 1944, Page 4

MINORITY VIEW

OF BRITISH INDUSTRIAL DISORDERS ATTACK ON THE GOVERNMENT. AND ON TRADE UNION LEADERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) LONDON, April 7. Tire National Council of the Independent Labour Council is submitting to the party conference tomorrow a resolution declaring solidarity with the miners, apprentices and “all victims of Government mismanagement.” The resolution attributes the coal strikes to the fact that thousands of young able-bodied miners have been drafted to the forces. Repressive measures against the workci’s, it is added, have replaced real policy. The trade union leaders knew the Government’s trifling with the problem was doomed to failure and yet acquiesced, with an inevitable widening of the gulf between unionists and their leaders. The workers were not driven to strike by evil agitators but by real and pressing grievances. Genuine workers’ leaders would uncover the causes of the unrest and not join in a' melodramatic hunt for scapegoats. Labour ministers should know from past experience that Scotland Yard detectives were not’an alternative to remedial action.”