The Archive · 1927

NOTES AND COMMON'S

The Shanghai Fascist Mr. Bernard Firth's first meeting] this, because they would otherwise joe in a most favourable position white elsewhere, There has been a China, and an equal policy of

ct that he didn't again: wish to come to grips with the. Labour Party, to force an inno which might embarrass the Government. Bearing uch points in mind, it will be more tian interesting t0 see whether the best of his part achievements. and of his Shanghai Fascisti would seem point to contrasts between them-just enunciated at Blackpool. grams on the political situation! selves and their Southern enemies. his undoubted ability asa paving to have been an unqualified success. refresh our readers' memory at Home that Labour is extreme-There is a tendency in this They do not loot missions, occupy, mentary tactician will overcome the on a piece of news now fortyly desirous of bringing back to munity to look upon this effort to foreign property, imitate Red me-Objections of the ight wing of the eight hours old, we reprint the its ranks conservative trade organize international pul opinion} thods in anti-foreign propaganda perty. Ant should Mr. Baliwin £0, gist of the resolution, which was unionists, and it need surprise J—for that is what it really amounts nor fire on foreign flags. But when Will tr. Churehilfe'stnr be yet more it comes to: taxes they do not seem inthe ascendant? the Labour Party's belief no one to find the leader of the to—wit an air of superior, tolerant able to resist the temptation of in the nationalization of mines, the party offering inducements here} amusement, as an adult would look: following the Southern lead. For More Elsction Talk from London development of chemical processes; and there if he fancies they are upon children's efforts to build sand The telegram published from Lone castles or make mud pies. this we have largely to thank our-for the treatment of coal and the likely to prove effective.

With this attitude we have no patience selves. We have greeted so many] don giving us more news conneerning ation of a system of distribu-'This latter phase of Labour Southern impositions in the con-[the arrangements made for a possible essential to the prosperity whatever.

It is adopted by persons politics is by no means the least} ciliatory and sympathetic spirit, generat election, indicates that the of the industry and of the workers interesting of the present day who have a strong, and generally that the Northerners have Labour Party is intent upon improvfenshared, concern for their engaged in mining.

The resolution reason to believe that extortion its parliamentary. taczies, doings. It need hardly bel called for the repeal of the Bight dignity; by the kind of persons who be resented, [There are those within the fold—the jon to emphasized that this _speciall feonsider propaganda in the service rabid ones—who want to go the mining injeonsideration for the miners at of the community a sacrifice Marshal von Hindenburg whole "hog notwithstanding the provision, the Blackpool conference _is prestige, who believe in resigning their whole fate to the "constituted In an-age when youth, with all consequences, but it may be fancied without recourse to the Poor Law because of the tremendous in-that the majority will jump at the authorities' and are thrown com-ita activity, energy, and enterprise and local rates, for the maintenartte fluence they wield within the is held to be the great factor in the Jchanee of getting into power on a of unemployed miners. It also callpletely off their balance when Sir Party, and if the present heads} Austen Chamberlain. tactlessly con-world, itis interesting to note that platform rather than reed for a compulsory grouping and are to retain their position a ter that he expects the the President of the German Re-out in the cold of opposition amalgamation of mines and for programme connected with coal foreign communities in China to lead poblie,- Marshal von Hindenburg, indefinitely. One reason for belief legislation to enable local authorities prime necessity. It is even the way and give the British Gov-Yesterday celebrated his 80th birth: in the influence of the more moderate to undertake the sale of cool.

idered essential to bring up sat something to defend. Dist-day. In this connection an even folement may be found in the recent In one sense this is an advance more interesting point Ie that Mar-appointment to the chairmanship of again the vexed question of the tinguished by little save pomposity, for the' Labour Party, although! bl thal von Hindenburg did mat achieve the Trade Union Congress of " nian eight hours' day which was so such persons will almost inva world fame until he had retired Jadvocating peace in industry and a certainly not one in which the much debated previously, when ing their forelocks and Policy' of conciliation, and if it is extremists will rejoice, for it seraping the feet before any Chi-from active service. He had attained the mine-owners claimed that tothe position of Corps Commander Possible to attract" Conservative shows a certain amount of the nese organization whose members unless there was eight hours' the German Army before war! trade unionists back into the Labour constructive element ju it.. Pre-might possibly be capable of placing work on the actual coal fac These are the camp—and by this we presume cer-ten-dollar order. broke out, and being, we suspect, viously, however, Labour con-production became so expensive! eminently respectable, the pillars of believer in youth, he decried to {ain members of the Conservative cerned itself with nothing but that it was impossible for! the community, who ballast com-retire to. make way for younger Party are also meant—and so swing the Nationalization of the whole!

Britain to compete with Conmittees of all sorts, and look down men, and it was only when War the balance of power from Con-servetism to Labour, the scheme is industry, nor was heed paid to} tinental rivals. Does it we mean with super ious toleration upon, broke out that he again took ae-it Is bound to find the constructive ipulations, that at some time in the not far such efforts as Mr. Firth five rank in the army at the te: above mentioned, such as the H, P. King have made to al flyest of the government, Ju his many After all one distant future the energies of] more, scientific way of treating under one banner the men of festive days he had. mach n special cannot ignore the Ture of office, and the Labour Party are again to nationalities who are willing to do Stedy of the Masurlan Lake dis: it may be remembered that. after the coal deposits of the country) bbe devoted to wasteful industrial so as to obtain the greatest something ied and honest te 0 frie) and. when. the. invasion. of the Labour Party had once been in dispute upon these matters? We value out of them, We do not help to. this community and Prussia, by the Russians occurred power, certain, lawyer-politicians Phope not, and if the other parts whose self-esteem on the one hi snd|hhe was sent there, and so began. previously unidentified specially imagine that, thd advances re-lof, the programme can be utilized Jand fear of what the Chinese might} {for him a period of great things. with any party, were only too ready cently made in obtaining crude [so as to improve the position of think of their participation in their It is surely in General Knox's book come forward to. contest con-oil and spirit from coal have the industry that it will bring defence on the other, does not that occurs the statement that} stituencies inthe Labour interest, brought about this change, for) Iwith it a betterment of the po: in the way of their public Russians had him in the hollow [Undoubtedly very good thing too, although over two hundred! tion of the miners, the resolution' spirit, The objection to the use of! of their hands on that occasion in for governments must "have their methods have reached the the name Fascisti is possibly-more the early days of the war but let. the legal members, and it is satisfactory are considering will have laboratory stage, few of them widespread than the objections to opportunity. slip, and Hindenburg. to think that' a short success had been' of great value, We ai the organization itself, The origin-risked the battle of Tannenburg the effect of persuading certain of have given more than a ten per certainly faced with angry mem-Jai Fascisti is said by critics to have! with supreme results to himself. the "hesitating ones to. make a cent, result. We are told that bers of the Labour Party, as was} been peculiarly Italian, Behind him all the time stood the straight-forward declaration og. fat the moment only one is said evidenced at Blackpool, who are] Latin in spirit, and im poli great figure of Ludenorif, more party. An especially interesting to have achieved a result of from apparently not satisfied with the cal erced to which some who are often than not considered the brain point about bringing back Conserv fifty to sixty per cent. in that proposals to combine pure ni willing enough to do their share in of the German army, and possibly tive trade unionists into the fold direction, but that system has tionalism with something con-upholding law and order in Shanghai correctly so. Ludendorf commanded this, that with a moderate pro-not yet been proved of commer-could not conscientiously subscribe._ only an infantry bridge when war} gramme, Liberals might be attracted structive, and it may not be too cial value. It is not any great} Some seem to think that the choice broke out, so he is a much younger fse, TE might mean a further easy a matter putting a check on immediate addition to the coun-hows so little originality] man that the President, yet it is assault upon the weakened ranks of such spirits. 'Then, however, stomatically mark: sth remarkable that it is Hindenburg' the ence great party. try's wealth, then, which has} the Labour Party succeeds ' in movement as a moribund effort and not Ludendorff who is the cen-indueed Mr, McDonald to add getting again within its ranks Fascism, however, envoys much to} tral figure on the stage to-day. The Family Professions to his bare nationalization pro-ithe conservative trade unionists, those who very familine with its facts of the matter are that! In one of his lectures on the gramme, but we can discern it it hopes to do, where exactly workings in Italy which it probably, Ludendorft developed into a stormy Three Principles Dr, Sun Yat elsewhere. will it stand? Numerically it does not convey the Shanghai petrel in German polities, mixing! points to the custom formerly As we remarked, Mr. Ramsay) will certainly have benefited, but founders of the association.

But t with such matters' asa! ailing in European countries while McDonald has shown no orginalall it means essentially opposition to Bavarian monarchical restoration, they were emerging: from the feudal in doing so it is possible that its ity in the compiling of this) everything that has a Red or even long as such activities were period of sons following the trades solidarity will have been threat-resolution, and as a matter of Pink colouring. The word stands, jed there was the chance lor professions of their tuthers, and ened. What may be hoped for, fact all the schemes indicated in the average Anglo-Saxon under-endangering the peace of Germany. states that in the lower grades of however, is that this conserva for war on radicalism, dis.

'On the other hand Hindenburg took' society they had no option but to do for the betterment of the coal tive element will exercise industry are about four years Truption of trade, industry and nor-little part in public affairs until so, There is no occasion to dis-strong influence upon the others, inal social life, and bad fai th i called upon to do so by a people' leourse further upon this point, but old. It may be remembered that which combined with the present interfiational dealings; and we be-who found the other leaders avail-it is of intense interest to realize in 1923 Mr. Lloyd George issued policy of conciliation announced Tieve, knowing

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