"Why the Black Coats should not join the Labour Party" was the theme of an address by Mr. C. FE. Higham, o.P., at a Middle Classes meeting at Kensington Town No man or woman working for a salary in this country should link themselves up to the present Trade Union movement or the Labour Party for the reason, Mr, Higham said, that the restrictions place on the working man and woman by these organizations was detrimental in that it killed initiative and the desire to get on in the world. No man, or group of men, had the right to tell their fellow-men what they should do with their time or how much money they should take home to their families every Saturday night. In his opinion the Labour leaders had gone entirely too far. If a working man~ wanted to do a good day's work his energy was limited. If he wanted to work more than eight hours a restriction was often placed on him. Men who had forgotten that they once carried a dinner could now dictate to those who carried one end were not ashamed to do so. Why should they be? The Labour Party were trying to set up a class. government in England. Party politics should play no part in the great problem of reconstruction. Nothing should be done in England to kill initative, kill the desire to get as much money as one was capable of earning, to strive for the development of one's brain, to strive for the happiness and health of the children, and to get a better home and more comforts, to get better education, to have proper clothing and medical attention. The only worker who was really happy was the busy worker trying to do his best for his family, Colonel J. R. Pretyman Newman, a.p., said the 40 or 50 members who had taken up the movement in the House of Commons had taken their political lives in their hands. The organization, which was started less than a year ago, had now 135 branches in various parts of England, and 40 or 50 branches were in the course of formation.
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