HOT WORDS IN PARLIAMENT.
KEIR HARDIE SCARIFIED. \ A LAME EXPLANATION. ! (Received August 24, B.S a.m.) LONDON, 23rd August. After Mr. Churchill's reply In the House of Commons on the discussion regarding the appointment of the Royal Commission, Mr. Lloyd George read the report of a. speech in which Mr. Keir Hardie, M.P. for Merthyr, told a thousand people that Mr. Aequith declared on Thursday that "if a strike occurred tho Government would keep' the railways open, even if they had to shoot down, every striker." Mr. Lloyd George indignantly aaked when Mr. Asquith had used £Ucn words. Mr. Keir Hardie, without making amende, replied : "I told my hearers that the impression left in the minds of the railway men waa that Mr. Aequith stated that the military would keep open the railway*, and 1 added that this meant shooting down, if necessary." Mr. Lloyd George scornfully retorted that if anything was wo-ree thaw Mr. Hsrdra'a statement it was the ©xplana. turn, and there was no adjective within the vocabulary of Parliamentary language which would describe it. Prolonged cheer* greeted this statement.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 47, 24 August 1911, Page 7
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181HOT WORDS IN PARLIAMENT. Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 47, 24 August 1911, Page 7
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