ARISTOCRATIC LABOUR.
IGNORING THE RANK AND FILE. : LONDON, Aug. 24. The aristocracy of Labour is the mort exclusive set in social life, declare* the London Daily Mail, referring to the demand of the Democratic Labour members for a rearrangement of the culinary plant of tha House of Commons so as to. provida "high tea" instead of th© more expensive dinner. The differences in the Labour pavty are conspicuous in other directions, says thro newspaper. While some Labour members travel by tramway and ' live in cheap boarding-houses, others drive their own caw to first-class hotels. The leaders attending conferences travel first-class on the railways, and stay at the beet hotels. Outside the conierehce-room they We scarcely on speaking terms with the ordinary delegates and their wives. . , ■ v The British Labour Party at present includes members of all classes, ranging from Mr Arthur Ponsonby, who comes of an aristocratic English family, to working miners and bricklayers from the 'earth.of England. Some of the members are wealthy men.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 806, 8 September 1923, Page 5
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165ARISTOCRATIC LABOUR. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 806, 8 September 1923, Page 5
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