THEN AND NOW.
“Ask one of the older men to tell you something of the indu.strhil conditions of sixty years ago. and compare them with the conditions ol to-dav.” said Mr Snowden, in another speech. “Children of f) working in factories twelve hours a day with buckets ol water beside them in which to dip them when they fell asleep; women with chains fastened to their haunches, driving trucks of coal underground in mines! Progress has heen painfully slow, scandalously slow, hut a man is either blind or untruthful who asserts that there has been mYssubstautial improvement in the conditions ol the people during the last fifty or sixty years. That progress, maintained Air Snowden. has been won not by fighting but by co-operation.”—Afr Philip Snowden.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1928, Page 1
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