COOK RECANTS

Grey River Argus, 22 April 1929, Page 5

COOK RECANTS

MINERS’ LEADER Converted by Prince FROM REPUBLICANISM. (Australian & N.Z. Oable Assn.) (Sun Cable.) (Received April 21 at 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 20. The Prine, I ,* of Wales has converted Mr A. Cook, the Secretary of the Miners ’ Federation. “I am still in theory a Republican, but the PrinefJ of Wades has been .he chief factor in destroying my Republicanism,” was Mr Cook’s striking declaration, in a li Daily Sketch” interview. Mr Cook add tl: “I’ve departed from my own revolutionary opinions because the Prince departed from the orthodox conduct of rpyaAty. If he were not th,?> Prince of Vfdes, he would still be a great social worker, a reformer, and probably of the same party as myself. A y ( -Ur ago this would have been received with hooting and indignation at any Labour meeting. To-day, it is received with cheers.” Mr Cook declared that, through the Prince of Wales’s wonderful work on L (half the miners, the question oi the mohaichy had ceased to be anj issue in the working class movement. He added: “It has made the British Throne the safest in the world, and himself the safest man in Britain. ’ ’ Mr Cook has thus handsomely r.> eajnted his oft-expressed opinion that ‘ ‘ Revolution in England is inevitable! ”