MR. RAMSAY MACDONALD
WELCOME TO THE CONGRESS. ATTACK ON GOVERNMENT. A. and N.Z. LONDON, Sept. 8. Special interest attached to the presence ol Mr Ramsay Mac Donald as a visitor to the Trade Unions Congress owing to the Independent Labour Party's slight in not nominating him as an official representative. On entering the hall lie was given a rousing reception. Mr. Mac Donald, in addressing the congress, assailed the Baldwin Cabinet for its bungling in matters affecting international peace and said the employers had the Ministry in their pockets. He said tho Government knew it would be beaten at the next election and so it had proposed a jerry-mander constitution to build a kind of Hindenburg line, so that whatever party might be in power it would bo unable to pass effective legislation. _ The Labour Party, Mr. Mac Donald declared, intended to meet the latest onslaught on the Trades Union. Bill by closer political and industrial action.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19738, 10 September 1927, Page 9
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