15 MAY 1926, Page 3

" I am not speaking," he went on, " for

the T.U.C. at all. I am speaking for nobody. I have not consulted with my colleagues. 1 am speaking from, my own heart because 1 believe 1 know what all this will mean as the days grow into weeks and the weeks—I hope not, but it may be so—grow into months. I am an outsider. I stand apart. 1 am not a member of a Trade Union and therefore I am a little freer than some of my colleagues. 1 can do things for which, perhaps, 1 may be blamed to-morrow. But I cannot let pass this opportunity of telling the House what is in my heart, and if it be rejected—well, 1 have done my best and no man can do more."

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