SOCIALIST PRINCIPLES
STATEMENT BY MR. COOK. WARNING TO GOVERNMENT. [ Austral i&n Press Assn. 1 LONDON. June 23. The miners* secretary-, Mr J. Cook, in a speech at Broomwieh. said neither the glory of office nor journalistic emoluments would seduce him from the principles for which the Socialist movement fought. It was the height of folly to think that the Labour movement would sleep because a Labour Government had assumed office. He warned the Government not to imitate the methods of other parties. -The Government’s policy muat not be “Save our offices,” but “Save the workers.” If he were unduly apprehensive it was because he was a Socialist who had been broken and thrown on the scrap heap after building up the movement, while men who had been converted at midnight had been given positions of power and affluence. The Government must honour its pledges to repeal the Miners’ Eight-hour Act.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 150, 25 June 1929, Page 7
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