Friday, January 12, 2007

Workers Dreadnought Jan 4th 1919

These are my notes from the newspaper library:
Down with the military service acts
The Brave Fight of the Conscientious Objectors
J H Hudson, Labour candidate for Eccles, in a message from prison:
Conscription is "a massive iron door erected by Capital in the road of the Worker's march towards his emancipation... The thousand men in prison feel themselves as a wedge holding firm twixt door and jamb."
This is after the Armistice. The COs are still in prison.
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2,000 workers at Newcastle on December 12th protested against the inadequacy of 29s unemployment 'donation', and demanded current rates of wages during unemployment.

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