MINISTER FOR LABOUR
“MINER WITH OXFORD ACCENT.”
NEWCASTLE, February 13
“The- miner with the Oxford accent,” was the description of the Minister for Mines, Labour, and Industry (Mr. J. M. Baddeley) given by one delegate at the last meeting of the Newcastle Trades Hall Council.
The meeting was discussing the advisability of admitting the unemployed workers’ fnovement to meinbership of the council, and criticisms of Mr. Baddeley made by the Newcastle- unemployed. ■ ..... ... The unemployed had their advocates, but a section Of the meeting endorsed the view of another dhlegatje that the uncffiiiioyed organisations were white-aiitiiig the industrial movement, and no motion was adopted. ... •
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 February 1931, Page 10
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