MAXTON DISPLEASED
ATTACKS GOVERNMENT STRONGLY “ONLY MURDERERS BENEFIT” Times Cable. LONDON, Monday. Mr. James Maxton, Labour M.P. for the Bridgeton division of Glasgow", addressed the delegates to the conference of the Independent Labour Party. He said he could think of nobody who was benefiting by having a Labour Government in England except two murderers who had been reprieved. The speaker made the charge against the Socialists generally that they were adding their voice to the voice of the multitude and declaring it was impracticable to do the things in which they believed. With other members of the House of Commons who represented industrial divisions he was ashamed to face his constituents because the Labour Party’s promises had not been fulfilled. “If I had been Prime Minister,” said Mr. Maxton, “I w r ould have seen that the unemployed had adequate allowances, admitted Trotsky to Britain, and recognised Russia, immediately re-established the housing subsidy, and raised the school age with a view to assisting the unemployed.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 734, 6 August 1929, Page 9
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165MAXTON DISPLEASED Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 734, 6 August 1929, Page 9
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