Second Edition

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 December 1912, Page 3

Second Edition

TO-DAY'S NEWS OF THE WORLD » [BT KLRCriUO TELEGRAPH- COPYRIGHT) [PBR FRBBS ASSOCIATION.] (Received This Day, 10.25 a.m.) THE TWO GEORGES. AUDIENCE WITH THE KING. LONDON, December 23. Tho Right Hon. Lloyd George, Chancellor of the British Exchequer, in whose department come, the troublous Insurance Act, has had an < audience with the King, '• RIGHT TO DOWN TOOLS. ' AND GET DRUNK. LONDON, December 23. Mr Keir itlardie, speakintg at South Shields, in referring to the Trade Union Congress deliberations respecting a maximum day, deckreo that every trade unionist would be asked to "down tools" when the oight hours were up. He hoped this would ho possible on May Day. In another speech fit Newcastle he said if needful he was prepared to advocate a strike for the right of the working classes to got drunk in their leasure.