The Prime Minister spoke plainly about the ittliseipliiie i the
Trade Unions. Trusted and experienced leaders were attacked and undermined, so that it was difficult to make agreements with their Unions. Some of the intriguers aimed at producing anarchy and destroying net only the Trade Unions but also the State. In certain trades, upon the continuous working of which our success in the war depended, the leaders had acted with patriotic restraint. But they were now being urged to use their power to hold up the community. The Government would deal with legitimate grievances, but they would resist any demand pressed, on the ground of brute force and not of justice, with the ulterior motive of overthrowing Or existing order. " We are determined to fight Prussianism in the industrial world exactly as WO fought it on the Continent of Europe, with the whole might of the nation." The labour unrest was rendering it difficult to make the Peax, upon winos the settlement of the world depended. His own work in Paris, said the Prime Minister, had been continually interrupted by the news of the strikes. That we may presume, was tits objeot of the real strike leaders, whose interests are those of the
enemy. Nothing could help Germany more than these Bolshevik outbreaks.
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