' 'The middle classes see Labour obtaining big. wage advances to mtet. the strenuous times (writes George A Greenwood in World's Work), whilst th«y themselves, in normal times miserably remunerated, are so badly organised—or not organised at all—that they can enforce no legitimate demand. They have to hear the burden of increased prices with little or no sidvance in salaries, whilst all their standing charges have bounded v.[> to an astonishing- degree during the past four years. These people have previously voted for the representatives of the old political parties. But neither Conservatism nor Liberalism exhibits the slightest concern in _theiilot. And, now that the Labour Party, with a sprinkling of professional men and women already in its ranks, lias acquired a "new status of respectability, its »pp&»l feu me t with «. dsdded re•pao*e*V-
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 156, 30 December 1918, Page 3
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