serious political developments in the United States is likely to arise. Labour in its present unorganized form has played no particularly great part in the politics of the country, the traditional party divisions still existing to the Present day. But with the securing by the Federation of a hundred er cent. "membership a Labour Party will inevitably come. into existence of a strength which it will not be possible to look down upon, for not only will it have acquired its own inherent strength, but by doing so will so have weakened the two older parties that a solid block of Federation controlled votes may have the effect either of dominating one or the other which may be returned to power, or of eventually dispossessing both of them in the councils of the ation and reduce them to the Position of an unavailing opposition. The forging of a powerful political weapon in this manner naturally considerable apprehension industrial leaders who see therein the death-knell of the control they have been able to exercise in the ast. It will give to the workers more important say in the government of the country because they will thus be directly re-Presented and their views put forward in no uncertain manner. If may result in ultimately subjecting the country to the misfortunes of improper government which have been so manifest in other countries and which have brought about a strong revulsion against the socialistic doctrines which {inevitably underlie most of the teaching of Labour. But history has shown that, in most countries where some form of democratic constitutional government still Prevails, the emergence of organized labour into full political power cannot be denied without a complete overturn of existing constitutional concepts. Such bouleversements have taken place in a number of countries in Europe; there is feeling abroad in Great Britain that some such development will be necessary if the anticipated ils of socialism are to be avoid-fed. In the case of the United States, however, there is just a possibility that the development of the Federation of Labour's policy will be so slow that the present political temper of the world will have changed to such a degree that the fight between Fascist and Socialist principles will have long been past, thereby obviating the necessity of such a sequel in the United States. The whole position is an interesting one. American industry is already highly develop ed to withstand the demands which Labour is proposing to make upon it, Lakour has yet to perfect its organization, but when that is, done a titanic struggle must ensue the result of which, if the case of
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