LABOUR SPEAKS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10712, 4 September 1912, Page 5

LABOUR SPEAKS

CABLE NEWS

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WILL THOHNE M KIS DEMAND

COMPULSORY ARBITRATION OPPOSED.

(Received Last Night, 9.15 o'clock.)

LONDON, September 2,

Mr Will Thorne, Labour member for West Ham, referring to Lord Devonport's elevation to the Peerage, said it seemed that the qualification most recognised by Tory and Liberal Governments was the payment into f .lie political fighting funds to uphold the privileges of the propertied class- { es. Mr Thome demanded an eight \ hour a' day and equal educational opportunities for children. Child "labour would only be prevented, he said, by raising the 'School age. The religious difficulty would only be settled by State-supported secular education. Mr I Thorns charged the Tory leaders with the responsibility for the attacks ow Ca-tholic Socialists in the Belfast shipyards. If the Government had done its duty, thoso high-placed individuals would have been put where thousands I of Irishmen had been put for less violent language. The Franchise Bill had not met the Trade Union demands. He ineisted upon the granting of adult suffrage, the abolition of plural voting, the payment of returning officers' fees, simultaneous elections, . and proportional representation. He hoped that organised; Labour would stoutly oppose compulsory arbitration. The wage-earners should endeavour to secure the collective ownership in land) railways, and production. The support of the international working class movement would terminate the foolishness of

spending half the national revenue in. armaments and war debts.