RIOT AT MEMORIAL HALL.
LABOR LEADER'S COMMENTS.
(Received Dec. 1. 2.15 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 30.; Mr Thomas, ,M:P.,'ih a special intorview commenting on the riotous •Ecenes at the Memorial Hall,' said:— •"Labor is not connected with any peace movement. Imt my union cf 800,000 railwaymen and other largo unions unanimously resolved against conscription. Labor throughout the -war has. shown unmistakably its readiness to render every assistance towards tl»e successful prosecution of -the war. "Trades union rules, as a rssnlt of a year s agitation," have gwie twerboard or been -either abandoned-or emended -nd*&*3 Brier to increasing the •~ *i rfjrotlTictabn. Unqttestitinabtjr latbor Gtpports the-wir, believing that it is a, contest foi ireedom against militarism."
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 284, 1 December 1915, Page 8
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113RIOT AT MEMORIAL HALL. Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 284, 1 December 1915, Page 8
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