The Archive · 1927

Towards the Right Wing

Other leaders towards the right wi Snowden, Clynes, and MacDonald. Snowden's Labour sympathies a about on a pur with Lord Asquith' and not nearly so Red as Lloyd: George's. MucDonald suffers acute fmvitction because his turbulent Loft wing will not break away from the respectable political purty he ing on the most approved models and form a Red party its own. The Clydeside con-zant of Red IL.P.'s have also got little bleached during 1926, One two will be included in the next wur cabinet ozd the prizes will who can most deftly vl ty ive their employees as large, or Target, than horta pai unions. Strikes ner at course, barred, and all matters @iapate have' to be settled by aiphiteation, Membership is ¢ompulsory on all employees, who are piso debarred from joining the ry. Th way has followed the muse. The Nottingham days the weakest active trade union point of view, Mr. George Spencer, loggerheads with the 3€ince's Federation from the commencement of the lock-out.

Just before the industrial peace, but to ask skilled engineers to agree to lower wages for the next five years than those paid to. tramear, conductors, scavengers, and railway porters is asking too much of human' nature. All over Great Britain there are the most absurd. wage anomalies. Printers get twice the ages of Labourers get half as much the most skilled miners. A third of the workers in Great Britain have of greater purchasing power Paralle} to et 1926 has seen several. banquets at which trade jets have! featernised with great employers in [freed ili ide send be prs oat ts fe eae' trace politi miner's trade union. As) Emplosment inmost of the local pits ix conditional on. the worker being a member of this new union moat of the men have joined it; but doubtful if it will have a long who know Spencer say Federation from expelled,

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