IMPERIAL POLITICS.
THE REAL PROBLEM.
[By Electric Telegraphs-Copyright ] [United Press Association.]
London, November 22,
Speaking at a Unionist demonstration at Birmingham, Mr Bonar Law, referring to the labor unrest, said that the real problem of statesmanship is to get a fairer distribution of wealth without drying' up the sources of wealth. The trades unions had helped the : workers in raising wages, though not in the last decade, because the more the unions were devoted to politics' and to becoming the mouthpiece of a single party the less was their influence; upon the country. He be-lieved-that a change in the fiscal system would tend to raise wages. He thought a general election was not far distant.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 71, 24 November 1913, Page 6
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115IMPERIAL POLITICS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 71, 24 November 1913, Page 6
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