AN APPEAL TO WOMEN.
FREE-TRADE AND LOW PRICES
MOCKERY- TO UNEMPLOYED.
Australian and . N.Z. Cabl« Association. (Reed. 9.5 p.m.) LONDON. Not. 22. . The most novel election meeting to-day was a. mass meeting of .women held m Drury - Lane Theatre, where the stalls, ciS and gallery w«re crowded hear Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer. listened with exemplary The women listened with exemplary concentration-to Mr. Chamberlain justification of the Conservative slogan, Keep the home fires burning.' A continual murmur of subdued "bear, hears suggested ' that * women voters are fully capable of following a complicated political argument. Mr. Chamberlain urged that it was no use having the cheapest prices in the ■world if you had nothing with which to luv things. If ; Home produce could supply the Home demand prices would not be affected by a duty. That was what differentiated 'wheat from manufactures. It was noteworthy' that the greatest enthusiasm among the women was aroused bv references to the Empire. There was a storm of applause when Mr. Chamberlain urged, that Britain's whole future was hound up in the Empire.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18565, 24 November 1923, Page 11
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180AN APPEAL TO WOMEN. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18565, 24 November 1923, Page 11
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