Suggestions for opposing the revolutionary spirit of the Labour Party were made at the speakers' classes of the Primrose League, held at the offices of the League in Victoria Street. The subject for debate was "The New Dictatorship." Mr. W. Faulkner declared that Labour classes and colleges, of which there was a complete network in South Wales, teaching the same doctrines as were advocated in Russia, had a more serious effect on the future relations between Capital and Labour than the words of the agitator. For these young men were shaping the policy of Trade Unions and permeating them with revolutionary views. If those people could translate Marx into simple terms surely those who stood for constitutional principles could do the same, and show the fallacies underlying this revolutionary spirit in our midst.
Sir Ernest Wild, summing up the discussion, said he was impressed by the suggestion that the bulk of the working classes of this country were not Socialists nor in favour of direct action. After all, the present Parlizment would not be in office if they were. But the middle-class people must throw off their apathy. The Labour Party should always be called the Socialist -Party. For we all belonged to the Labour Party. The only difference between himself and Mr. Thomas was that he worked at his_ trade while Mr. Thomas did not. But the Socialist Party almost deserved to succeed because of their enthusiasm. That must be counteracted by showing that the Constitution could be changed only by constitutional methods.
On the other hand the Christian Socialist group, led by M. Huller, the Minister of Instruction and Worship, are legitimists seeing still in Karl the King of Hungary, and desiring his return. The Gov ernor, Admiral Horthy, and the leading members of the Cabinet, strongly object to the question of the kingship being pushed to the foreground now, before the difficult task of internal consolidation has been completed, and they call upon members of all parties to respect the inter-Parliamentary agreement that this question should be put on one side for the time being.
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