JNF-The-Working-Class-Struggle-of-Half-a-Century

This special committee also made contact with the government
of the day and brought back depressing reports. The administrator condemned
the strike in the strongest terms and on the 16 th May 1940, a
resolution denouncing the strike was passed in the Legislative Council
by majority vote. Speaking on the resolution, the Administrator said, it
is now crystal clear that the selfish aims of a few irresponsible people
are the direct cause of the unreasonable stand taken by the strikers; a
stand damaging in the extreme to their real interests.
1970
Today in 1970, thirty years after the first big fight between capital and
labour in this country, it is for the people to assess what damage was
done. It is for the younger generation in particular to make comparisons
of various kinds with their fellow workers of the 1940s whose days
work brought them one shilling and three pence for twelve hours toil,
just over two cents and hour. Nevertheless, a part of the price of progress
was paid by the victimization both inside and outside the factory
after the strike.
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