THE KING'S FUNERAL.
AND THE WHITEHAVEN DISASTER (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright., (Per Press Association.) LONDON, May 26. Mr Keir Hardie, speaking at Pontypridd, said he hoped the suggestion to indefinitely postpone the resumption ol the fight wherein Parliament was engaged would find neither sympathy or support from either side. The battle must be fought through at the earliest possible moment, said Mr Keir Hardie. He entered a protest at tho glorification of militarism displayed in the Royal funeral to the exclusion of the civil side of Government. He objected to the enthronement of a fighting man. The military element was always destructive of civil liberty. During the last fortnight ho had been sick at heart at the mawkish sentimentality shown. He could sympathise with the widow and family of the dead King, but his sympathy was equally keen for the widows and families of victims of Whitehaven. His opinion as a miner was that the walls had been built to extinguish fire in the colliery, while the victims were still alive. He was sick therefore at the mummery shown at the death of one man, while those others lay there uncared for.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9223, 27 May 1910, Page 7
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191THE KING'S FUNERAL. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9223, 27 May 1910, Page 7
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