TALK OF REVOLT
SENSATION IN COMMONS. LABOUR MEMBER’S SPEECH. MINERS’ CONDITIONS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT. LONDON, March 4. A sensation was caused in the House of Commons during a debate on revolutionary propaganda by a speech of Mr Wheatley, who said that if Conservative members were subjected to miners’ conditions for 24 hours • they would not only preach revolution but wo.uld practise’ it. “Revolutions are not made by speeches,” he declared, “hilt by conditions. We hope and pray we may be able to adjust the social system constitutionally, but I am not going to shelter myself by saying I think it will be reformed in time to enable us to escape without violence* I tell you if I were enduring these conditions, or if I felt that by the exercise of a little violence I could emancipate millions of fellow from perpetual poverty, I "should feel more justified than you were in 1924.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 March 1925, Page 5
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