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INDUSTRIAL UNREST
AFTER WAR PROBLEMS
GOVERNMENT ACTION:
country. The restoration of union regu- Food Controller and his predecessor for lations was a question which bristled what had already been done. Obviously with difficulties. The Government was high prices in time of war, when there under the most solemn pledge to restoro was scarcity, were inevitable, but they them, and the only way out of the dif- might reach a point which was really ficulty was that any modification of these dangerous. It was beause the Govern- In the House of Lords, recently, the forinor regulations should take place by ment had the conviction that the price Marquis of Salisbury called attention to consent of the trade unions themselves of the greatest necessities of life had the reports of the Commissions of Inquiry could be obtained without giving rise to they took the drastic step of fixing the He saw no way by which that consent risen to an almost unendurable pitch that peto industrial unrest, and moved for great suspicion and misunderstanding price of the db loaf at 3d, and taking pipers. The principal impression left an except tous industrial councils as the That had stopped the rise in the price of
through the action of just such upon themselves the pecuniary burdan. the mind of sny candid reader of the Whiteley report bad recommended. The bread and the measures taken by the reports was one of distrust. The Commin rat steps must come from the casters Food Controller regarding the wholesale sioners reported that in almost all reall the reports said that what mattered prices of meat had also had the effect of was not a new scheme, but a new spirit, lowering the price to the consuiner A. pets there was a feeling of distrust of spirit in which the master motive of table he had had prepared showed that employers, of the Government, of Parlia industry would not be either the making there had been a steady riso in the price
of profits or the earning of wages, but of food since the war began. I was nient, of the trade union oficials, of the service to the community. (Cheers.) wonsiderable but not very as whole social system: That attitude of Lord St. Darida believed that the 1810, but in 1998 the rim was much more distrust had a direct effect on the painepicion about excess profits was at the marked, and for the first six months of bottom of half the unrest of the present 1B17 it became really terrifying, no doubt, tion the workers cecupied with regard to time. The statement that capitalists largely in consequence of the subtuarine burning questions of the moment. For were gaining by this war was not true campaign. Taking the bulk of the example, there was the dread they faltnvestment companies had lost very articles of general consumption together, that what were called pre-war conditions very beavy sufferers. Some traders had per ocht on pre-war prices. On Sept. Rrently. The capitalist class were really there was a rise on July 1st, 1917, of 184 would not be restored according to the gained, and these were those that the 186, 1912, they had risen: 105.6 per cent. working man saw at his door. The pro That was about the time the Government pledges of this Government. It was probats of farmers had been very great indeed interfered By Oct 1st, the percentage ably true that pre-war conditions could The Government ought to take the whole of increase had gone down to 97.3. That of the excess profits Would it not be was the first time since the war began not be restored in their integrity, but the wig for the Government to say now that that the prices of essential articles bat no man should gain by the war; that in
as a whole, shown a tendency to go back. future, if a man made £100 a year addi- While he did not wish to be too sanguine, tional by the war the Government would he thought they might succeed in holding take it all and, in cases where great the prices or stopping excessive rites in articles of the most vital importance. He fortunes had been piled up, that before a general tax is levied on other people the was convinced that so far as marest was whole of the wealth made directly by concerned while the dearness of food was profiteering would be taken for the benefit the dearness of food was due to some b very important factor, the belief that manipulation for profiteering was doing a great deal more harm (Hear, heart) It was for that reason that he attached the greatest importance to the ceaseless efforts of the Food Controller to stop unjust and excessive profits out of dis- ing in getting distribution more event. Tha tribution. The Government were succeed-
steps taken in regard to sugar regetra- tion would be useful, not only in cur ing better distribution of that article, but also as a guide for the distribution of other articles.
late Ghveromeat had pledged themselves Up to the hilt to restore these conditions. That was a very difficult and odious situation for the Government. There was nothing to be done except to appeal to the working classes, to throw themselves on their mercy, and to beg them to cof the State operate in Guding a solution of the difficulty. The governing classes hitherto had beer inclined to regard the working class ng at times a sort of dangerous animal of enormous strength and great potential violence, which it was necessary to be very civil to, but never to trust (Hear, hear.)
That was a profound mistake, and it was fraught with the greatest danger to
Lord Beresford said most of the present unrest was produced by the idea that cer- tain people had made immense fortunes out of the war, and that it was based on profiteering. After the war there would were now receiving wages from the State, be 8,000,000 people to be absorbed who
and unless great, care were taken there might be appalling trouble. There must The no question of the workhouse or charity, or benevolent institutions for these people. It must be the business of the State to see to proper, organisation for their absorption.
our country. How.ought the situation awa
UNANIMITY OF THE NATION.
The Whiteley Report came to the Gov- ernment as a confidential document some time in March. It was not fully con-
TRIBUTE TO
PATRIOTIC WORKRE
Ho desired to associate himself with what had been said by the Archbishop of York regarding the real aspirations of the working classes, and his hope that on the lines they were now proceeding they might find a way to fulfil those aspira tions as far as they could be fulfilled. Immense dificultica beset them, and they had a tremendous task before them but he believed if that task was tackled in the right spirit on both sides, a great deal which at first sight appeared impossible might be accomplished. Many things had happened during the war of a most dise quicting and alarming nature. There were plenty of mischief-makers, who used their disputes and their legitimate grievances to hamper their country in the conduct of the war, but the great majority of aur fellow countrymen were patriotic at heart. The industrial classes were it as patriotic as any other class. When the point was reached at which it became apparent to them that the con- tinuance of an industrial struggle would imperil the safety of the country, their prejudices and even their legitimate grievances were thrown side. They had done it every time, and he believed they would do it to the end of the struggle. The only thing they then remembered was that they were Englishmen and at a time of the greatest peril that England had ever known they were going to stand by their country
be dealt with In the first place they Viscount Milner said the question waseidered by the War Cabinet till Jane. must get rid altogether of the want of one of the highest national interest With It then met with their unanimous confidence with which the working classes insignificant exceptions there had been approval, and they studied it with very had been treated in the past. (Hear precedented unanimity among all high hopes as to the effect which might bear.) They must be prepared to tell classes of the community in the greatest result from the adoption of the system them the truth-always the truth. I trials and in the face of the greatest recommended. A new department was for example, they found that honours danger which had ever confronted this constituted and set to work to get indits. were being improperly bestowed they nation. Nothing but that unanimity trial councils established on quickly as must not scruple to give the right name had enabled them to achieve what had possible in the various trades. It was the to the transaction. (Hear, hear.) Then heen achieved, and so long as the national intention of the Ministry of Labour to they must appeal to the sense of duty of unity was not broken nothing whatever approach the employers in certain trades. the workers, and not always to their could bring us down. Therefore, the con- which were ripe for this system, and to pockets. Also they ought in all respect aideration of any of there causes of un-
cover as large a portical of the field ar to take the working classes into partner rest, which might affect the rational quickly as possible
pa ship, not merely nationally, but indus-unity to a serious extent,, must always be trially, and lastly, they must show that forcmust in all considerations. The they had the interests of the working fear would expect from him some classes at heart."
account. of what had actually been done, In the matter of education he would not and what the Government were trying to suggest that should be put forward now; do to meet the special causes of indus- but an urgent question was that of hous-trial unrest to which attention had been ing. There was the permanent housing called by the Commissioners in their re- policy of this country which required to ports. He thought those reports formed be taken in hand immediately on the con- tome of the most valuable documents clusion of the war, Then there was what received in recent times with regard to might be called this super-argent qucation social conditions throughout the country, of housing in indnetrial districts, par- The Commission was appointed on. Juns ticularly those inhabited by munition 12th, and the reports of eight sub-com Workers He did not belong to a party mittees or presented on July 17th, which had ever preached the gospel of together with a very useful summary, wealth. That might be a new party but calling attention to the principal points. he was content with the old party, which Then were oight principal points had no respect for persons es between brought out in that summary points of rich and poor, but wanted justice for very different degrees of importance. all. The working classes were working Some of them were far-reaching and out their own salvation, and he hoped fundamental, whilst others were rather that in the long run the good sense of local. Of those eight there were five of a the people would prevail. Whatever hap more limited and, at the same time, of a pened, his party intended to trust the much more definite character than the people, and he believed they would return other three. He would take the minor the trust. (Cheers.)
points first. It was pointed out that the a week maximum pay ought to be The Archbishop of York, while agreeing raised. That had been done by means of that the elements of unrest in the world the Workmen Compensation Act The of lahour were formidable thought it grievance of skilled workers who were urprising, not that there had been so receiving lover wages than soMIE NIEWS mug disquirt and unrest at the present comers because they were not on piece time, but that there had been so little work had been met to a large extent by (Hear, hear) That to his mind was the recent notion of the Ministry of specially so considering the position in Munitions. The order affected between which the vast majority of workers were 200,000 and 300,000 workers, and the cost placed, and the many ways they had been to the State of that single change amount The Earl of Selborne said that such severely tried. They had found that the ed to between £5,000,000 and £8,000,000 action as had been taken had been taken high wages received were more or less it was not the figure so much as the fact by this Government, and be believed it absorbed by the high prices they had to that the Government had taken this would mark a turning point in the his- pay for the needs of life an increase step of their own initiative certainly tory of Government action in connection which had been largely caused by pro ot under pressure and because they be with social questions in this country. fiteering They had been harassed and lived it to be just. A third recom- The Government had behind them the harried by the confusion caused by mendation was that pensions committees whole of their lordships House in the recruiting and medical examination, should have a larger discretion in their polies on which they had started. (Hear Above all, they had been annoyed and treatment of men discharged from the hear.) He believed the wisent mensura irritated by the constant confusion be Army, and under the Royal Warrant of the Government could adept to promote tween Government departments and the March 20th a much wider discretion was industrial calm and incressed, output consequent delay in the settlement of given. Up to the date of that warrany would be to arrange to give a month's many important and pressing questions the number of rejections averaged 2,084 who had been bearing the immense train holiday on full pay sucessively to a'l men The working class, had submitted to the month. Since then it was ninety-seven of three and a half years work in the suspension of regulations which they a month. (Hear, hest.) Fourthly, there prized and valued as the result of great was a recommendation that agricultural factories and munition shops The most strugzles. When the war was over there wages should be raised to minimum of wonderful thing the war had proved was would be, and rightly be, a demand for 25 and the Food Production Act had the solidarity of our race and nation. the workers of all classes that the pre already given effect to that recommends did not matter whether a man was
They might have their disputes, but it. war conditions should not be reverted to, tion,
duke de a crossing sweeper, if he wee an but a new departure made. C
Then there were the bigger questions of Englishman he really looked at things food prices, housing, and industrial from yery much the same point of view, councils. Housing was the one on which (Hear, hear) The extreme homogeneity The causes of unrest were many, but they had the least good case Housing and unity of our nation, as compared he would only refer to two. The firs after the war was one of the big branches with some other nations, was one of these cbviously was the unequal distribution of of the vast subject of reconstruction. things which ought to cause us to feel the rewards of industry as chown by Considerable progress had been made, no fear for the future. What the trada the contrast between the accumulation and there was no want of hard work or unions were out for was to establish the of wealth in the hands of a few and the thought in connection with the subject status of the working man and the status position of the vast majority of intel There was also the question of what of the union. But the unions could not ligent working meri a position raised could only be in the nature of a tem have the status and at the same time re- bat little she the margin of poverty,porary palliative. The housing question main irresponsible The real solution, The second main cause was the de- had become more urgent during the war the safety, was to be found in the pote humanising of industry. The working, and a big programme was required, but pletion of the strength of the trade union man felt that there was no place for his it must be an after-the-war programme organization that their status should be free poronility in the system under But as regarded the measures required fully recognised and accepted, and that which he worked, but that, in spite of immediately in order to most the grow their responsibility should be assumed all improvements and trade activitice, he congestion which existed in certain and acknowledged by them. In that was only part of a great machine and localities where munition workers congre House Capital was dy fully represented liable to be scrapped like the machinery
he thought over represented and it he worked upon The time had come
made their position in the problems when the poplovers must recognise that
which were coming forward peculiarly if they were to have harmony they must
diffenit. But he spoke the literal trata fake their workmen more fully into their
when he said that there was no part of Parliament, where the claims of Labour confidence
would be considered with more gymnathy or more impartiality than in that House The motion war by leave withdraw,
KAUARS OF UNREST
The real centre of the situations that the time had come for 3 new stage in the industrial development of
gated, something must be done at once, and if it was not being done as fast as
ought to be somebody was to blame (Hoar, hear)
FOOD PRICES.
Regarding food prices, while a great deal remained to be done and always would yet great credit was due to the