Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1919 — BRITISH IN MOVE TO END UNREST [ARTICLE]

BRITISH IN MOVE TO END UNREST

Resolutions to Scan Causes Presented by Henderson and Lloyd George. PEAGESOON, LATTER ASSERTS Will Blockade Hbns Until Pact I* Signed Organized Workers of Britain Demand Greater Bhare of Wealth Produced by Their Effort*. / _ London, Feb. 28.—Stirred by Premier Lloyd George’s ringing call for the same unity Ip the industrial world which won the war, thus preventing n “would catastrophe affecting America as well as Europe," Britain’s industrial congress took great steps toward averting n crisis. In a motion by Arthur Henderson, backed by the premier, the congress which represents nearly every industry In Britain and qiore than 10,000,000 workers, voted the establishment of a commission of 60 members —S') from labor and 30 from capital—to make an inquiry: 1. Into the causes of the present unrest, 2. Into general conditions of industry. 3. Into unemployment and measures for its prevention. 4. Into methods for co-operation between capital and labor. The government will appoint the chairman of this committee, which will report to the industrial congress not later than April 5.

Premier Talks to Miner*. During the afternoon the premier was called torn the congress to the miners’ conference. During- his brief absence from the industrial gathering, the fiery little Welshman swayed the miners' delegation and secured a point in having the national miners’ strike postponed from March 15 to March 22, pending the report of the government commission’s inquiry, in which representatives of the miners will participate. There is a strong reason to believe that this vote of postponement may avert the strike altogether. Lloyd Oeorge promised that the cost of food at the British workingman’s home will have fallen by two shillings a week by the end of March and four shillings a week by the end of April. Hopes for Peace Soon. Chews greeted his announcement that peace preliminaries will be signed within the next few weeks, the German signature —and only that —allowing the removal blockade. The prime minister declared ne dreaded stagnation. If Britain stood still and America and France would stand still, be said, and that woUl 1 mean a catastrophe for the world. “We won the war by unity,” he said, amid cheers. “Let us have the same unity in peace.” Sir Robert Horne, presiding at the congress, declared unemployment was not greater today than In 1914. The government, he said, did not favor the establishment of national factories as that would hamper private enterprise. Demands Share of Wealth.

J. H, Thomas, the labor leader, asserted the miners, railway men and transport workers stood unalterably for government ownership of mines, railways, lnterlnnd and coastal transport, and added: “There has been scandalous profiteering and the organized workers are determined for an increased share In the wealth which their labor produces. “The organized workers of Great Britain have made up their minds to qbtaln for themselves an increasing share of the wealth which their labor has produced and produces. They therefore demand that they* shall become real partners in industry, Jointly sharing In determining working conditions and management. “The miners, railway men and transport workers stand unalterably for the ownership by the state of the mines and railways and of inland and coastal transport.”