MINERS REBUKED.
DISLOYAL TO LABOUR PARTY. RECENT BY-ELECTION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. August 24, 5.5 p.m.) London, August 23. Mr. Robert Smillio, president of the Scottish Miners' Conference, robuked tho Derbyshire miners for disloyalty to tho Labour party over tho Chesterfield by-election, in which Mr. Kenyon (Lib-eral-Labour) was returned at the head of tho poll, and in which chief interest was in tho split between Liberalism and the Labour party. Mr. Smillio said that if the Labour party was not strong and active in tho House of Commons, «tho miners wore to blame.' Tho Liberal party was not in earnest in the proposed reforms, which it was dangling before the people. Mr. Kenyon is a loyal miners' official, and his candidature -was strongly sup ported by tho district, lodges of the Miners' Federation. The Parliamentary La» bour Executive, howovor, refused to recogniso Mr. Kenyon's candidature, although the local Labourites and Liberals had adopted him.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1837, 25 August 1913, Page 7
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154MINERS REBUKED. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1837, 25 August 1913, Page 7
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