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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 25, 28 August 1916, Page 6

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; j -.o 'Hi "')• v •• PROTEST AGAINST;;.CAST ! OF 3 ' - rrriH &rr;r- *» r■■ ) ■ ' -.’r: ..'ftTy ■. ■ ; •; C-UT.*,*•>?■“ I--~f , i: " :1 fTb ■' M■■ 1 * 1 ■ .*.* J,? S 7 ■-* *fj *5 RAILWAY M EN?S- P EMONSTRAt f TION IN HYDu PARK. Press Association- CopViight, A list™. ' fi,an and■'N.Z*. Association. (Received 1.15 p.m.) London', August 27. The Railwaymen’s- demonstration at tH-yde' Park Was a protest against the increased cost; of living. ‘ Speakers from five platforms vigorously denounced the .piratical methods of the capitalists.. The keynote of the workers’? attitude was no-industrial truce unless, there is to. be fail; pla> towards the workers. Resolutions were carried; that trades, union circles do not! share • the'belief that there will be an- early - pe'ace,. and that there is a growing conviction that in view of the present, output of .material and munitions’, and- also-, the preparations for eventualities, tfip -end is not yet in sight. . A prominent Labour Congressman declared that• wav- would only end when the workers had given of thenbest. :f 5 -i ■