BRITISH POLITICS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1248, 5 October 1911, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

> SPEECH BY MR. CHURCHILL. t STATE RAILWAYS FAVOURED. By Tcleera-Dht-Prcss Associo.tion-OoDTriel't (Roc. October i, 9.5 p.m.) I London, Octolior 4. I Mr. Winston Churchill, Uomo Secretary, in a speech at Dundee, declared that Eng- '. land wished to wo the Morocco question settled once for all. . Turning to homo -affairs, Mr. Churchill j said ho attributed tho labour unrest largely to tho rise in. food prices during £ the lost fifteen years, ami tho failure [ wages to advance proportionately. TJic j rise in prices was <hio to the cnormov.sly increased output of gold. A sovereign 3 would now buy less clothing ond food than formerly, but, while prices irera easily raised to meet the new conditions, . wages moved very slowly and jerkily, ojhl • often only after fierce quarrels between > employers and employed. ; Personally, he favoured tho nationalisa- : tion of tho railways. Owing to their ■ responsibilities to tlio public, the raihray--5 men did not enjoy tho full power of col--1 lectivo bargaining. Parliament musi J therefore see that they wore not losors on , this acconut. 1 The Goronuncnt \rould 6tako its exist- ■ once on the passage of tho National In--1 suranco Bill this year, despite tho in--1 trignes of Tory wire-pullers, and the open j hostility of the Socialist party. i Mr. Churchill eharply criticised Sir Sd- ■ ward Carson's campaign in Ulster against ' Homo Eule.