“WORKERS MUST RULE AND OWN THE LAND”
LABOUR ASPIRATIONS TRADES UNION CONGRESS By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright \ Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Monday. 1 Mr. George Hicks, in his presidential address at the Trades Union Congress at Edinburgh, assailed the Trades Union Bill as a futile attempt to suppress sympathy and the growth of class-consciousness. Despite protestations to the contrary, the shadow of the mining industry was blacker, more sombre, and more ominous than ever. Poverty was worse. Over a million were precariously living on Poor Relief. Yet in 1924-5 89,415 persons earned an aggregate of £517 millions. Labour’s task of remedying this lay in the developing of political activity, to confer on the people the real ownership and control of Britain and her resources. A conference of the organisations of employers and employed would do more than the Government’s vague industrial peace aspiration. Concerning Russia, whose methods were sometimes crude and arrogant, they must remember that her leaders think in terms of the rule suffered in Tsarist days.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 142, 6 September 1927, Page 1
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