ECONOMIC CONFLICT
FREE STATE AND ENGLAND. SCENE AT CONFERENCE. LONDON, July 13 The Irish Free State Minister of Lands, Mr Connolly, created a stir at the meeting of the Economic Commission of the World Conference to-day when, after an argument with the chairman, he left the platform. Supporting a' Sov’et motion in favour of decreasing working hours and adjusting wages scales to productivity, Mr Connolly entered on a discursive presentation of Irish history hack to the days of Cromwell that led Dr. Golijn to cal! him to order, 'whereupon, a’tev ah exchange of words, lie abandoned his speech.
■Mr Connolly had declared that the ■economic conflict between England arid Tic-land was the' only remaining, example of discriminatory aggression against a single country. The undelivered portion of bis speech; which- was typewritten, and which he ' reserved the right, to circulate, asserted that,'if the Free State were pom ; nutted to vote only as: a mere sub;, sidiary of Britain it would not on re to martieipate in the counsels of the conference.
Tim motion was referred to the Drafting Committee. . ,
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1933, Page 6
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