LABOUR IN ENGLAND.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17695, 22 October 1919, Page 5

LABOUR IN ENGLAND.

DEMAND FOR PARTNERSHIP.

LEADERS PREPARING FOR

ANOTHER BATTLE

(Reuter.) . Received October 21, 11.10 p.m LONDON, October 20.

Mr. Smeliie, at. Bristol, said that the miners claimed, and intended to have, a fair share of the executive control of mines.

Mr. Harry Gosling said that he was not prepared again to confer with the employers unless the latter realised that aii eraploV.ee was no longer a slave, but a partner. Mr. Gosling added that, arrangements were being perfected to give workmen a better chance of lighting in future, including feeding them and their families by co-operative societies.

Mr. Robert Williams-, at Newport, said that ihe Covernmexit and the employers could make up their minds that the workers would not accept any reduction in earnings.

Mr. J. H. Thomas, speaking at Derby, emphasised thai* the right to strike was Labour's greatest bargaining power, which cpuld not be relinquished. The railwaymen exquested a share in the management of the railways, and he invited the Government to consider the proposal. The railwaymen's request was on the ground that they could contribute experience, brains and '.f'capacity to the "managemerit of the railways, which would be valuable to the whole country.