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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 21, 25 January 1934, Page 7

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MacDONALD SPEAKS.

Lively Passages in Address To Large Audience.

GOVERNMENT WORK REVIEWED

(United P.A.-Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

LONDON", January 24.

"You are not our friend," shouted interrupters when the Prime Minister, Mr. MacDoriald, made reference to the working men as his friends in addressing an audienee of 3060 in Leeds.

Mr. Mac Donald was opening a platform campaign, the object of which is to place before the public statements about the Government's achievements. Jeers and "boohs" punctuated his speech.

The Prime Minister claimed that the Government had done more to restore warmth, comfort and blessedness than 1000 hunger marchers could do. This provoked a storm of derision, his opponents screaming and gesticulating wildly.

"Let us build up the machinery of a co-operative world," continued Mr. MacDonald. "One of the first pieces of it would be the relation of coinages. I am impatient at the slowness, but the mills of God grind slowly.

"If we are gc.ing to extend our home market we must find new occupations, for a large amount of labour is not likely to be employed in the old processes.

"We have to protect our home market. The Government is fully aware that its protection must be taken up by -men of energy, determination and enterprise."'

In addressing an overflow meeting, Mr. Mac Donald was greeted with catcalls and shouts of "Scotch monster," at which he bowed and remarked to his supporters: "Let them howl. They do not know what they are howling at."

A British official wireless message states that a detachment of unemployed men headed by Mr. John McGovern, M.P., left Glasgow on a march to London after being joined by 300 other unemployed marchers.