IN TIME TO COME.
FUTURE STRIKES. MEETING IN TRAFALGAR-SQUARE. SPEECH BY MR. KEIR HARDIE. Dj Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright (Received May, 15, 9.10 a.m.) _^_ LONDON, 14th May. A^lairgely-attended meeting was held in Trafalgar-square on behalf of the South Wales miners' etrike fund. A resolution was paseed to the effect that aa the earnings of twenty thousand pitmen, working full time, were under twenty-one shillinge a week each, there should be nationalisation of the mines and a statutory minimum wage of 28e a week. Mr. K»ir Hardie, Labour M.P. for Merthyr-Tydvil, eaid the strikes of the future were going to emhra<!e the whole country. He wae not sorry that the employers had combined ; as a matter of fact they had knocked a little eenee into ■>come very thick heade.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 113, 15 May 1911, Page 7
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