REVOLUTIONARY REMARKS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 138, 9 July 1909, Page 3

REVOLUTIONARY REMARKS

FAT AN IHfEJIPLOYED MEETING. A COUNCIL THREATENED. •, By Telegraph.—Press Association. ■ Christchurch, Last Night. A meeting of unemployed, convened fcy the Trades and Labor Council was j characterised by revolutionary remarks of some of the speakers, who are also members of the Socialist party. One speaker referred to the mob that y -John Burns and otheis incited to pillage in the West End of London, ' and said that if the Christchurch City Council refused to stir any quicker than B it was doing it was likely to have a V greater responsibility in the way of proHp , viding policemen and soldiers. There §1 s were some present, he said, who came j®- ' from the Old Land—a number of Scotst: men with a little blood in them, as well [»;■.: as a few Yorkshiremen and Lancashire- ?" men—end if the old chums were not . 1 likely ■to strike, he could assure them that tie new chums would. (Appl&use.) [j I- i If the mep who were starving could not jf" fight lor themselves, he was prepared to jjA do a little fighting in order to havs j their rights asserted. Another speaker said: "If I were in the position of the" men out of work 1 L would be Woking about for dynamite." **s The meeting resolved: " That the MinT ■ igter for Labor be informed that the ' - position orthe unemployed is still acute, and "that in the opinion of this meeting ' the authorities have not taken adequate •tops to relieve the distress." ;■ • It was also decided to protest against the City Council's action in using a . donation for the relief of the unemployed to benefit the ratepayers by violating the • r «- •minimum wage principle; also that the 1 local members of Parliament be asked l' to confer with the unemployed on the '' question of the introduction of a Right [ to Work Bill."