PREMIER AND PRESS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18331, 14 March 1925, Page 11

PREMIER AND PRESS.

MR BALDWIN'S ANALOGY,

Speaking at a luncheon given iu his honour by the London Press Club a short time ago, the Prime Minister, Mr Baldwin, referred to certain things which he held in common with the members of the Fourth Estate.

''When I came to study the Press," said the Prime Minister, "as the Press had been good enough to study me, I brought io boar on the problem a mature judgment and an unprejudicod one, and I came to two or three con-

elusions. % The first is that you work* ing at your profession have a great many points in common with m« working at mine, and tho chief ones that struck me are that neither you nor I have any regular hours for our meals, that we arc not subject to the eight hours' law; that we can be 'fixed out' and put on the street at a moment's notice without compensation and without pension. If I may Tea-" ture to say it, neither you nor X aw the possessors 'of Kolls-Eoyee cars; not havo we villas on the Mediterranean. These things ought really to be a very great bond between us." Mr Baldwin was presented with a pipo wlsich was made from a briar root 150 year's old, and one of the . fow that had the required curve. J* I ', was obtained from the offiee of an ex- • pert in pipes where it had been pre-~-served for generations as the* most i perfect of pipes.