NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 21 April 1924

21 APRIL 1924

A resolution held at the Scottish Trades Union Congress condemned the practice of allowing Army, Navy and Air Force bands to enter into competition with civilian bands.

The British Empire Exhibition was opened by His Majesty the King.

Leon Trotsky said that Ramsay MacDonald, the British Prime Minister, was “not a true representative of the workers”.