“MAKING FOR WAR”
BRITAIN’S RUSSIAN PQLIGY EX-MINISTER WILL USE IT TO PROMOTE CLASS WAS. INFLAMMATORY SPEECH. 3y Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian and N.Z Cabto Association. LONDON, December 23. Mr J. Wheatley, M.P. (Lab.) formerly Minister of Health, speaking at Glasgow, said he was afraid the Baldwin Government's policy was making direct for war against Russia. If any attempt were mad 9 to launch a war against Russia lie would devote his life to appealing to British workers not only not to join .in the fighting but to utilise the opportunity to attack British capitalism. He warned Labour supporters that the free trade versus protection conflict was merely between rival sections of capitalists, and did not vitally affect the workers.’ Labour stood' for protection in the higher sense of a standard of living for the toilers.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12021, 26 December 1924, Page 7
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