VICAR'S OUTBURST.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 66, 14 June 1912, Page 5

VICAR'S OUTBURST.

"Devilishly Selfish Capitalism."

The Rev. Meredith Mornvis, M.A., vicar of Clydach Vale, in the heart of the Welsh coalfields, says the London "Morning Leader" of March 12, delivered a sensational speech yesterday to several hundreds of colliers. Dealing with the miners' demands for a minimum wage, lie told his audience that he had studied both this question and that of tho abnormal places. He hoped and prayed thai they were going to get the minimum wage —and they were going to have it. "If you put less starch in your collars and more in your backbones you will get it," lie declared amid laughter. Personally, ha believed in nationalisation of the mines and the land, but in the meantime they must go in for one grand federation of trades unions —a federation of federations. Workers wanted to realise their organic unity, that all men wero bwithi-rs and that when oik- man was injured in tho Rhondda his brother in London was injured. There wero thousands upon thousands connected with difficult trades and professions up and down the country who did not get a living wage. Capitalism was utterly selfish—yes, devilishly selfish.