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THE GENERAL STRIKE. DENOUNCED BY LABOUR LEADER, WOULD RUIN TRADES UNIONISM, (Received June 4, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, Juno 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 bo regarded as victory. if fought to a finish it would ruin trade unionism, and the Government could meantime create a revolution. Many blamed the general council, others the minors, but the real blame was on tho general strike itself and those who preached it, and without consideration induced tho workers to blunder Into It. “ I hope tho result,” said Mr MacDonald,” will be a thorough reconsideration of trades union tactics in largo Industrial operations either In offence or defence, which cannot be planned by speeches. If the wonderful unity of British Labour which impressed the world was shown at tho bal-lot-box Labour could solve most of its difficulties.
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Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16814, 4 June 1926, Page 7
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