MEETING INTERRUPTED

Hokitika Guardian, 4 September 1930, Page 5

MEETING INTERRUPTED

SPEECH BY MR CLYNES. . . '(} v ;■ ... ,1 j ' i (British Official Wireless.) (Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 3. tfj r Al)Out thirty intruders at the Trade "Union Congress meeting at Netting-: .ham to-day interrupted the proceedings when the Home Secretary (Mr; J. H. Clynes) rose to address the meet-'-ing. The interrupters who were appar. ently Communists were ultimately ejected-, hut the demonstrations considerably." delayed the proceedings. In his speech, Mr Clynes said if they did not got “Socialism in our time,” iu its complete form, they were getting,it,all the time in one degree or.another, but Socialists could only be. made by argument and example. It was in that spirit that tlie Government lias pursued its course, and they looked t.o tbe immediate future and remoteahead with the knowledge that things that were to last must be-things of, slow growth, i -Government ■ were wait- j ing opportunities to reverse trade diS- j putes, and they were committed -to: 1 tha.t attitude, It was -the purpose- of the present Government to give back I to Trade Unions the freedom of which they were deprived by the Parliamentary action of our opponents. A proposal which had been considered of broadcasting speeches of the Prime : Ministers at the ■ opening session of the Imperial Conference on Sept. 20th. has been abandoned, but arrangements, have been made for a special broad-' cast- to be given bv each of the six; Prime Ministers during the period that the Conference is meeting. It is stated that similar arrangements may be.made for broadcasting speeches by leading- delegates to the Indiab Round Table Conference which will be ■held in London after the Imperial .Conference has concluded its work., .i ■