RUSSIA AND BRICKS
After dealing with,the shortcomings of the other.parties contesting the election, Mr.: W: J.; Poison,' Government candidate, for ' Stratford, A said that if Labour';. moved a .-? Rio-confidence motion he . would be found voting it ; : as; :it 'would \be a major disaster if the Labour Party got into power. Their principles were socialistic, and Socialism had ■ failed everywhereit had been tried. ' ■■■.
A voice: Except Russia.
,' Mr.'Poison: You are surely riot serious. If you read your newspaper—— "I can read you a bit, too." "Let us not hurl, bricks At one another," said Mr. Poison. The feature of the recent cables was that bureaucracy had been, compelled to restore the freehold of property to the Russian peasants in order to maintain the State. This, in itself, was proof that any attempt to socialise the means ■" of ptoducion was a failure^ even in Russia. :
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 109, 4 November 1935, Page 4
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