A FIERY SOCIALIST.
SCOTLAND'S MINERS IN CONFERENCES .Received 30th, 10.20 p.m. London, December 30. Mr Smellie, the president, addressing the Scottish Miners' Federation Conference, compared unfavorably to Scotland ; tlie conditions of work and housing in Scotland and Westphalia* He emphasised the large and growing army of unemployed in Glasgow, and other industrial centres, and urged the Government to deal with the unemployed. He denied the epithet of robbery applied to the proposal to restoie stolen property to rightful owners (cheers). The true"" salvation of the country lay through socialism, through holding land, railways, and mines as means for the production of wgrk on behalf of the whoto people instead of private profit for a few (cheers). All Solders of land anif wealth were) against them, and it would be in the workers' interests if they could secure what these people possessed ' at present (cheers). .
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 306, 31 December 1907, Page 2
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144A FIERY SOCIALIST. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 306, 31 December 1907, Page 2
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