BADLY HECKLED

Evening Star, Issue 21628, 25 January 1934, Page 9

BADLY HECKLED

MR RAMSAY MACDONALD SPEECHES AT LEEDS Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 23. “ You’re not our friend,” shouted interrupters in retorting to Mr Ramsay MacDonald’s reference to working men as his friends when addressing 3,000 people at Leeds at the opening of a campaign to emphasise the Government’s achievements. Jeers and boos punctuated the speech. He said that the Government had done more to restore warmth, comfort, and blessedness than 1,000 hunger marchers, thereby provoking a storm of derision, his opponents screaming and gesticulating wildly. “ Let us build up machinery for a co-operative world, one of the first pieces of which would be in relation to coinages,” he said. “I am impatient at the slowness, but the mills of God grind slowly.” He added: “ H we are going to extend the home market we must find new occupations, as a large amount of labour is not likely to be employed in the old processes.” Addressing an overflow meeting, he was greeted with catcalls and shouts of “ Scotch monster,” whereupon he bowed and remarked to his supporters: “ Let them howl. They do not know what they are howling at.”