—Mr Ramsay Mac Donald, M.P., has added a gem to the collection of mixed metaphors for which political oratore arc famous. Referring to t'he Syndicalists, Mr Mac Donald once said: "No sooner do they get themselves into a hole than they put. down a string so that we may pull them out of it. The Delilah of Synd'calism has endeavoured to cut the locks of trade-union-ism, so that it becomes a mere piece of •putty in the hands of the political authorities." This is declared to be the most magnificent mixing of metaphors bv a public "man since John Burns inveighed against the London County Council for "taking a white elephant under its wing."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16121, 9 July 1914, Page 6
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