BRITISH POLITICS.
THE .LONDON-UNEMPLOYED. INCENDIARY:. SPEECHES AT TOWER: HILL. ■JLABOUBv MEMBERS ADVOCATE CRIME. {Pbms Association.— CopyniQHi.) ' <Received Oct. 29, 835 a.m ) LONDON, Wednesday. Mr Victor Grayson, Socialist MP. for Colne Valley, addressing the unemployed at Tower Hill, challenged ,the : Labour leaders to join him in a campaign to' rouse the country upon the question of unemployment He .declared that the people never got the Reform Bill by begging and pray ing for it; but by threatening and do ing. It was not sufficient to demon strate at Tower Hill. They must go nearer home, and nut the fear of God into the hearts of tho Cabinet, and history would be made during the next. three months," for half a million people were ready to risk their lives - to find work ihe unemployed He would be willing to do what the people wanted, whether it wa's according to law or against law. Mr Jack Williams, Labour M P for Gower, deliberately ad\i'ed tho unemployed to rob and plunder all round if they were unable to obtain bread for their starving families
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 29 October 1908, Page 3
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