ARE THE MINERS SOCIALISTS?

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 307, 31 December 1907, Page 5

ARE THE MINERS SOCIALISTS?

SCOTLAND v. WESTPHALIA. ■• ■ • - \ ; .

(Received Dec. 31, 7.45 a.m.)

LONDON, Dec. 30

"The -Standard asks how far those r cheering Mr Smellie represent . the ''.Scottish miners on a clear issue of ♦ Socialism? As regards Westphalia as ■ a field of labour, Germany reserved it for Germans. If British trade union-; ists would be more < practical and readier': to take practical remedies for the ills they suffer than follow •.theorists, let them study the progress of the German worker since Bismarckabolished free imports.

Mr fPete' Curran, speaking at a iSociiilist demonstration in Bristol, said that 1 the country's prosperity was represented to be rising, but the •degradation of the "jjporkmah continued. 'There would benb remedy Jfor unemployment while unscrupulous and low competition was a guiding of-commerce.