BRITISH POLITICS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9632, 5 October 1911, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS.

MR, WINSTON CHURCHILL ON VARIOUS MATTERS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

iPisr Press Association.)

LONDON, Oct. 4,

Mr 'Winston Churchill (Home Secretary), speaking to his constituents at Dundee, doelarcd that England wished to sec the Morocco matter settled once for all. He attributed the labour unrest to the rise in food prices during the last fifteen years and the failure of wages to advance proportionately. The rise was due to the enormously increased output. A gold sovereign would now buy less clothing and food. While prices were easily raised to meet new conditions wages moved very slowly and jerkily, and often only after a fierce quarrel with employers and employees. Personally, he favoured the nationalisation of railways. Owing'to their responsibilities to the public' railwaymen did not enjoy the full power of collective bargaining, and Parliament must therefore see that they were not losers on that account. The Government would stake its existence on the passage of the Insurance Bill this year despite the intrigiws.of Tory wirepullers and the open hostility of the Socialist Party. He sharply criticised Sir E. Carson's Ulster campaign.