POLITICAL SPEECH

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10441, 5 October 1911, Page 5

POLITICAL SPEECH

CABLE NEWS

United Press Association- -By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.

BY MR WINSTON CHURCHILL

THE POSITION REVIEWED

(Received last Night, 9.5 o'clock.)

LONDON, Octol>er 4

Mr Winston Churchill, speaking at Dundee, declared that England wished to see the Moroccan question settied once and for all. He attributed tho labour unrest largely to the rise in food during tiie last fifteen years, and the failure of the wages to advance proportionately. The rise, he said, was duo to the enormously increased output of gold. A sovereign would buy le.s clothing and food, while prices were easily raised to meet the new condition. W r ages moved very slowly and jerkily, and often only after a fierce quarrel between employers and employees. Personally, he favoured tlhe nationalisationisation of railways, owing to the responsibilities due to the public. The railwaymen did not enjoy full power in collective bargaining. Parliament must, therefore, see that they were not the losers on this account. The Government would stake its existence on the passage of the Insurance Bill this year, despite the intrigues of Tory wire-pullers, and tho open hostility of the Socialist party. Mr Churchill sharply criticised Sir Edward Carson's Ulster campaign.