WILL LIVE IN RUSSIA.
LADY A ST'OR’S CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
BY CABLE— PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Aug. 21. Lady. Astor, in December last, challenged any British Socialist doing lip service to the Soviet regime to .put his faith to the proof by going to live in Russia, offering to pay the fares of any accepting her challenge. •.James Morton, aged 48, an ironmolder'of Liverpool, has accepted her offer ami sails for Leningrad during the week-end with his wife and two children.
Morton isays things may be a bit thin over there, but they cannot be leaner than they are here. “Though L am a skilled man, I only draw 62s 6d weekly, and I think myself lucky compared! with other skilled workers in the engineering trade, though I have been unemployed mare than half my time since 1921. As secretary .to the Liverpool “Hands off Russia Committee,’’ I know .something of the conditions of workers there. While the State is in a stage of transition, it cannot be a. land of milk and honey.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 23 August 1926, Page 5
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