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Show ISSUES A WARNING AGAINST WALKOUTS LOXDOX, Aug. 23. The quarterly-report quarterly-report of the general federation of trades union contains a warning by the management committee. "November 1919 to May 1920 will be fateful months,-'' say the report. "Unless "Un-less sanity returns and production increases in-creases they will be tragic months. ''Strikes have been precipitated which might have been avoided and union funds have been needlessly dissipated. dissi-pated. Some strikes had a distinctly political origin. Political strikes must either fail or end in revolution. They are not against the capitalists but against the community. It is not the capitalist who suffers but the people. Against such strikes the government must protect the people or surrender its functions. The effect of such strikes is to decrease production and increase the prices of all commodities." |