CAPITAL AND LABOR
UNPARALLELED UNREST A DIRECT BATTLE (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.' {Australian and iN.Z. Cable Association. (Received April 18, 1 p.m.) LONDON, April 17. Mr. J. Maxton, in his presidential address to tho Independent Labor Conference at Leicester, said: “ There never was a year when the battle between capital and labor was so direct, or when the workers suffered such nnparallellod brutality at the hands of the ruling classes. No Labor spokesman has any right to encourage Mr Baldwin to cherish ideas of industrial peace when a lai’ge section of the workers are living under conditions which stir a spirit of bitterness so that it might well find expression in a- direct form/’ He regretted that they were not able to prevent- armed intervention in China, but with Russia, China, and India united there would bo power a-vailhble to rebuild the world.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16317, 18 April 1927, Page 8
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