DEPORTED STRIKE LEADERS.
OPPRESSING UNIONISM
LABOUR'S PROTEST
LONDON. Apri 18
At the Joint Labour Conference. Mr Seddon. in proposing his resolution for the repeal of the banishment of the deported South African leaders, declared that the attempt in Africa to put down trade unionism was only the forerunner of a similar .movement in Britain.
Mr Ramsay Mac Donald said Labourites could not agree with the view of self-government which said that once a colony was a Dominion it had a right to use its power to interfere with the principle of British citizenship. lie considered England was the source of Imperial power and must have a right to express its views, whether with regard to South Africa 'or Australia.' The Indemnity Act was a monstrous piece of in_quitous legislation against which they ought to protest, not merely as Labourites but as men responsible for the liberties of the Empire. Messrs Mac Donald and Seddon sail for.South Africa sho.rtly. .
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Northern Advocate, 9 April 1914, Page 7
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