NO SLEEP FOR LABOUR.
ITS POLICY MI'ST JiE ‘‘SAVE THE WORKERS’ 5 THROWN ON SCRAPHEAP. Received Sundav. 11 p.m. LOXUON. dune 23. The miners’ secretary, Mr. Cook, in a speech at Bromwich, said neither tho glory of office nor journalistic emoluments would seduce him from tin; principles for which the Socialist movement hud fought. It was the height of folly to think the Labour movement could sleep !.).•cause a Labour government had assumed office. He warned the government not to imitate the methods of other parties. The government's policy mnst not bo “save our offices, ’’ but “save the workers.’' If he was unduly apprehensive, it was because he was a Socialist who had been broken and thrown on the scraplump after building up the movement, while men wiio had been converted at midnight had been given positions of power and affluence. The government mnst honour its pledge to repeal the miners’ Eight Hour Act.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 June 1929, Page 6
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154NO SLEEP FOR LABOUR. Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 June 1929, Page 6
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