APPEAL TO MINERS.
OCCASION FOR ACTION
SPEECH BY MR COOK.
LONDON Aug. 13. Mr A. J. Cook, the miners’ secretary, in a rallying speech at Durham, appealed to the miners to co-operate in the movement to smash the Eight-Hour Day Act. He declared that human endurance had reached its limit, and that this was an occasion not for patience, but for action. It was a choice between starvation wages or the closing of the pits, compelling the nation to pay miners a living wage. He was not willing to await the advent of a Labour Government; he and all the others concerned might starve before that happened. He was organising a revolt from Land’s End to John o’ Groats in order to rouse the workers to united action.—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 220, 15 August 1927, Page 7
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131APPEAL TO MINERS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 220, 15 August 1927, Page 7
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