The Archive · 1924

State Ownership

London, Oct,.17.

The Miners' Federation have issued a manifesto calling on mining district voters unhesitatingly to support Labour candidates, The manifesto declares that the working-classes can be proud of their own Government's record of achievement. It says that if the Labour Party are returned to power they will as speedily as possible introduce a bill for the nationalization of mines. It asserts that mineworkers and their families are suffering beyond description. Over 100,000 mine-workers are i wre closing every week and I below subsistence for the nation" in order to end profiteering and the gross social Justice of the Reuter.

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