Political Labour is to be given! one more chance. to be helped be submitted to an acid test will be judged by the resa resent policy to. tranamate the Labour Party into a new. Liberal Party on the oid model. It is alleged thet they and their new aristocratic Converts wish to shed the rag-tag: and bob-tail following of "street corner agitators and Red "Flag enthusiasts who have helped to build the Party up and get a more respectable and bourgeois class of supporter. This new Party. will then suppress strikes and "maintain publi services" in the same way any other party. That will meat With the ce-operation of the semi oficial strike breaking organizations how in existence.
Tf they do this! as it. will mean the end of the trade] union political levy, and the end]
'Organized Labour's support' at that there are huge accumulations} of coal at the pit heads. There are also huge accumulations at the ports, where the wharves are choked with coal for which there ix no customers. the world substitutes coal and the} consumption is going down.
The! Dattleships that used to cut up coal by the thousand ton are burning Evers fall of water in the world harnessed for power. All over the world coul is being mined to. supply the waning demand. Faced with this problem what do/ your masters prescribe as the infallible remedy,? They "say "Get more coal." They say "Stop down in the mine for eight hours a day instead of seven." Their cure for! every case of over-production for! profit is to produce more. How Jong are you going to let yourselves he made fools of by people who will better your little food by giving, you less; who will improve your 0 by cutting them heavy labour by increasing your hours; who will murder and starve you in the name of a community of which you are the integral part? That is typical Red reasoning with Peculiar appeal to discontented workers, The Right wing Leaders; appear to have no effective counter to it and are gradually boycotting the industrial black spots of the country and concentrating their eloquence on Rotary Clubs and Chambers of Commerce.
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