The truth is thay the Labour! Party is splitting rapidly, and the majority of Labour leaders know it. It was significant that Mr. Thomas peaking on Tuesday night Kentish Town to some railway-mon, remarked:—
"1 want all the workers to work together, 1 want to ree solidarity, bat Tat it te sou instead of talking about wwe had ete some of the section. rawtks. When we eu fect vid oth alt our troubles will over.
Mr, Thos vel Kill it. ight but he never The Communist davider all workers who are manual Frew Ove OWN Comestonnent, London, Feb. 26.
Mr. Kirkwood's famous speech at tacking the expenditure on _the Prince of Wales's tour has driven wedge in the Labour Party.—It may be recalled that recently Kirkwood, one of the Clydesite members, submitted a motion in the House of Commons to reduce by £100 the vote proposed by the Government for the payment of the fxpentes incurred i mee Wales's forthcoming tour. Tw" divisions were taken on the question. Over 80 members of the Labour Party, including a few Front Benchers (Mr. Arthur Henderson, Mr. Wheatley, and] Ca Wetgwood) supported Kirkwood in the Divi-Mr. Ramsay I. R. Clynes, Mr. few thers voted with the Government. Considerable Jattention to this breach in the/% ranks has since been given in th columns of the "Daily Herald," the oficial organ of the Labaar Party, many Ireal organizations have: passed resolutions deploring the; faction of those Labour M. P.'s who! did not fully support Mr. Kirkwood': attack on the Prince's vote.
Last week-end Mr, Macdonald, Mr. Clynes, and Ar. Thomas gave increased "importance to the eantroversy by discussing it in publi speeches in a way which annoyed Mr. Kirkwood and those who had supported him. Mr. Clynes, in particular, condemned Mr. Kirkwood's action in the House as one! which lucked the authority of the: Party and its leaders, This criticism was immedi answered by Mr. Kirkwuod's publ assertion that the Executive of Party had selected him to mise question of the Prince's vote in the House of Commons. In this atmosphere the Party. discussed The monte of the attitude opted by Mie. Rickwood and the bali of the Party on the isae of the Prince's The "erin, of, the reduction orlean The Demand for Discipline According to unofficial "versions Jof the proceedings, the mesting was [characterized by merciless frank but it not lack good humour. ployees a perhaps the lowest, lerical—the Moderate thinks hat maybe there is some good in the brain worker, to whatever grade he may belong. In short, we are steadily moving towards the time when there will be—in addition to the Labour Party representative of trades unioniem—rome sort of ganized advanced Socialism or Communism. there are those who think the Trades Disputes Bill. now being pushed by a number of the rank and file Unionists will reunite the Labour Party on a common platform of defence. Under the Inw as it now exists all members of trades unions can be made to pay an annual compulsory levy towards the funds of the Labour Ps less they contract out valu [No one does so contract out through fear of reprisals since a dissentient is regarded asa blackleg and bitter-lly boyco: ted If you happen to be a contracterout in " railway yard wife may count on your one day coming home in pieces—possibly with the tacit assistance of your fellow-workmen. Hence workmen not Labour supporters—and there are thousands of them—are obliged to support the Party to which they Jare opposed. The present proposed Il permits those who wish to subjseribe to "contract in". All who have no wish to subscribe are left! by law in pence. The very existence of the Labour Party depends: fon the rejection of this measure there will be a bitter fight on it (The Government refused to support the measure and it was with-
Mr. J. M. Hickson, the spiritual healer whose tour of the Far East Jatiracted much attention, and who visited Shanghai, replied to his cities address from the pulpit Bradford. Mr. Hickson said that if healing missions were concerned only with physical healing, he would have nothing more to do with them. Tt had been said, even by clergy, that the results' obtained at tha mission were due to mass suggest-jon. The church would be 93 dangerous ground. if it said' that} prayer for the sick was suggestion because, if they followed that line, of argument to its logical conclusion. all prayer was suggestion, and there was very. little in religion at al. If he accepted the criticisms of some of, the bishops he could not continue nts work, and would feel inclined Mr. Kirkwood defended "himself to burn
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