SOCIALISM
SPEECH TO SCOTTISH .MINERS,
United Press Association—Copyright (Received Dec. 30, 10.20 p.m.) LONDON. Dec. 30. Mr. Smellie, president, addressing the Scottish Miners’ Federation com feience, compared unfavorably to Scotland the conditions of work and housing in Scotland and Westphalia. He emphasised tin) large and growing army of unemployed in Glasgow and other industrial centres, and urged the Government to deal with the unemployed. lie decried tho epitkAgf ot “Robbery” applied to the pfopo?** sal to restore the stolen property to the rightful owner. (Cheers.) The . true salvation of th© country lay through Socialism—through holding, iand, railways, and mines as a means of production and work on behalf of $ the whole jieople instead of for private profit for a few. (Cheers.) All holders of land and wealth were ag—J ainst them, and it would he to the : workers’ interest if they could secure f; what these people possessed at preent. (Cheers.)
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2076, 31 December 1907, Page 2
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