THE LABOR GOVERNMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN
HILLQUIT, MORRIS
THE LABOR GOVERNMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN By MORRIS HILLQUIT THE advent of the hrstdabor government in Great Britain will mark a definite turning point in the world'* history. Within recent years...
...It is quite clear that one of t h e reasons which induced the government to make" tikis decision was the hope that they might between the election and the meeting of Parliament be able to coma to some arrangement with the Liberals by which the Conservatives could remain in office with t h e Parliamentary support of the Liberal Party...
...I know ; nothing of what Comrade MacDonald's present Intentions are a s to filling the various government offices, beyond the fact that he is giving the matter very serious att e n t i o n so that when he is summoned is**) « i s w r s i M i i t t h a n will bo bo undue delay...
...T h i s is the last, and most notorious of the transactions in "GovernJibst" shipping, by which the GovWmnont has npent hundreds of mil TltWisof doiiara...
...Our America^ newspapers just now an* eager to impress their readers with the "conservatism" and "respectability" of the British Labor Party, carefully relegating its Socialist character to the background...
...doubling",up...
...This is precisely what has happened to the British Labor Party...
...Why, Si eparing for mora war...
...Beginning with an organised membership of about 876,000 in all affiliated bodiea, tha parties polled (52,000 votes and returned two members to Parliament in the initial year of its existence, 1900...
...There is many s slip between tha cup and the lip, bait there never was an unaccomplished fact so eertatn t o come to pass as that within a month there will b* a labor government in office in Great Britain...
...hyBut from what they know of the praniiseR >iisually made by George H. GoObel, who is r u n n i ng It, they a r e cancelling every date' to f e sure to he t h e r e oft t i m e ., 3, It isn't going, tb b e only a New W r k City affair,-a>ither- BapresenWveu of t h e iroeillftt*hioven\ent of "Je City and S t a t e a n d of t h e nationHand iuteruatiffial movement will i n h e r e to give t h e i n f a n t the s t a rt • f t every SocljpW paper4...
...and there were no more hints of public operation of the various lines...
...or •1st to pay U g h prices for inadequate apartments, and submit to overcrowding by taking fewer rooms than are required for decency, and [by...
...psny...
...ernment, but reasonable people will make due sllowance for the dtffleul ties of oar position...
...I have writieu aa though the early advent of a labor government worn a foregone conclusion...
...In those days Great/Britain and the United States of America were the only i^njiitries governed on the principles of political democracy, and in England the suffrage was practically limited to the possessing classes...
...They need food...
...or else it) pay t h e highway man's r e n t s , double,«up families a nd live under conditions that make decency one of t h e lost graces...
...The I only suggestion which may turn out to be true It that Comrade Mac Donald n a y hsmaelf take the poet of Foreign Secretary in addition to that of Prima Minister, it wilt be an exceedingly heavy task to take up the duties of these two offices, but in tha e v e n t of bis doing so he will probably hand over the work of leading the House of Commons to a colleague...
...The Russian experiment may be a historic necessity for Russia, but it does not point the way to the workers in countries of western civilization...
...Since the enactment of t h e 'Vrajmm, • I'.v.-.&m*aim»m&& deal of bunding, but not ono single house has been built calculated to take care of the working people and poorer paid professionals...
...If the labor government recognised Russia, the Liberals could not very well oppose...
...torn out the labor government either on it* international policy or on it* proposal* for dealing with unemployment...
...Such people must either "buy" one or t w o family houses and tie themselves up for years in mortgages that art worse than rents...
...Rp^iieiter, where conditions are pre-nojinccd normal...
...We could take over the government any day," •he said, "but what would b* t he use...
...The aecond very important matter i* that of national finance...
...Under the circumstances the Bolshevists took the government by default...
...Even in Hungary the short-lived Soviet regime was suppressed by a brutal capitalist dictatorship which has maintained itself in power ever since.The Socialist governments set up in Germany and Austria in 1 VJJSinust also be considered as mere passing incidents of the military defeats and political revolutions in those countries...
...with the disorganized condition of world shipping some subsidy waa considered necessary by those who refused to admit the principle1 of public ownership and operatic...
...We need food and t h a ' reconstruction of Our industries...
...Government ownership—with reservations— has just cost the people "over $24,000,000, in t h e m a t t e r of t h e sale to private interests of seven " P r e s i d e n t " ships for a little more t h a n ten cents' on t h e dollar...
...and probably will fight its way to an order of social democracy through many years of suffering and struggle...
...By PHILIP SNOWOEN, M.P...
...The Liberals of their own accord will support a Labor Amendment to the Address which will be a direct Vote of Censure on the government...
...But with the close of hostilities, there was no more need of placating liberal opinion...
...The fact that it wa* written before event* that are now well known to reader* account* for certain allueiont to event* in the future that are now in the patt...
...There is a small ***• tion which would favor an understanding with the Conservatives la order to prevent a labor government from talcing office...
...That's the only way out...
...Seventy-five years have passed since Marx and Engels formulated the slogan of the "capture" of the powers of government by the working class and about fifty years have elapsed Bince Marx coined the phrase of the "dictatorship of the proletariat...
...tha immediate intrort'iptlon of proposals to amend tha Constitution with a -view o making <t possible two years.henAe to hate the State and muuictpat administrations of local housing and planning- boards t o ro-ojperate with the r*ata Mousing Commission, which wtlfcontinue its investigation and quest for remedial measures...
...4,067,215.37 Total $28,501,836.02 ruder the terms of the eontract the Dollar Line agreed to "maintain for a period of five years a roundtheworld...
...Slum Coaulitiont RavaaUd Testimony before that committee indicated two thtoigs...
...The Labor l'rlme Minister will have the responsibility for the government, and he could hot bo expected to accept the responsibility for Ministers who had been appointed by others...
...For a quarter of a century prior to the I It IK revolutions she devoted herself to the feminist <»u*e, fight-' ing for suffrage, for equal rights f ar men and woman, for tha popularizatlon of birth control information, and for child welfare legislation...
...The labor government will be judged mainly by ita auceess in reducing the volume of unemployment...
...appronehes havvi been fc*d.i, -vif...
...F r a u Schreiber is jn t h e United States on a speakirfg tour, and Tuesday night she Bpoke at a meeting for Local New York of the Socialist Party, addressing a packed ball at the Labor Temple on 84th Street The German people were over-' wholmingly in favor of the Republic, she said, when the Revolution toppled/ over the Imperial throne and the 22 minor thrones in all parts of Germany...
...The debate on the Address will open op Thursday, January 17th, and two or t h r e e defers later t h e government will be overthrown by a Hostile vote of the Houna of Commons...
...These are t h e principal findings set forth in the report of...
...In the frequent parliamen-1 tary elections which will undoubtedly mark the unstable political equilibrium of the next few years in England, the Labor Party Will gain strength in every succeeding contest and will be alter-1 nately in and out of the government until It will enlist the steady support of the absolute majority of a voting population...
...We must be permitted to g e t back to work...
...It was to threaten to beat them up, to ypll »t them to "stout u p " and to bury their bills in committee...
...they are Increasingly forced t o take in lodgers...
...The cause of Germany's downfall was toe iniquitous Versailles treaty...
...Or a s many as will be able t o g e t i n . And Agnes Laidler will sing...
...Comrade Schreiber is a Viennese by birth, but she has lived the bettor part of h e r life in Garrwuty...
...The first course would be magnificent but it would not be war...
...Rents High...
...The press is full of rumors of who is going to ba jthis Minister and that Minister, hut I they are merely conjectures...
...There is work enough in dealing with these two problems profitably to employ the energies of a labor government for many months ahead...
...Practically new, they were delivered to^thfj shaping board in 1020 and The following table shows the cost of these seven s t e a m e r s - all of about the same •tte-rjM.MO tons: Shipav— Const, cost...
...a disorganized country gong begging for a government with the ancient and characteristic Russian plea: "Our land is large and abundant, but there is no order in it...
...It is i r n t h e r remarkable, hoWev»r, that amidst all t h e criticism of the newspapers upon th* forth-coming labor government, practically nothing is being said which reflects upon the capacity of the men who will have to form the labor government...
...Political parties are trees of vary slow growth...
...In the present circumstances of no party having a char majority this practice is impossible, and the labor government would not resign except upon a direct Veta of Censure being carried against ft...
...Antithor .vhlfi that hm just been sold *t terms that, arouse serious questions »H to the honesty of the transact inn was the City of Los Angeles, Isold(,ast August for slOii.iinn to the LOH 'Angelas Steamship I mn...
...Six years ago, t h e Socialists proposed in a series of bills in t h e New York legislature and t h e Board of Aldermen looking towards t h e immediate establishment of a system of municipal housing...
...As one landlord testified before the Sure Housing Commission in the City Hall, last October, " W h y should we build lower-class apartments' and make only 10 to 15 p e r Bgnt^When we can build the same homes only a few blocks away, p u t ' fancy names to then, add charge rents accordingly and make 00, 60 and 75 per cent, a year instead...
...the overthrow of the autocratic regime of the czars and of the succeeding weak bourgeois government...
...Although the assumption of power by the British 4-abor Party is legitimate and fogieal under the rules of parliamentary preCedentr/the party stlnSrepresents a minority of the electorate and a minority in the House, On the first vital issue a labor government at this time is bound to fall before the united opposition of the two capitalist parties in Parliament...
...The legislature is going to fool around" w i t h th,* - question, a f ew speech** -will be made expressing sympetHy W y i t h e poor tenants If or politieAJ'pt4r*o»e|l), and the "emergency* V*s---und«r which the emergency 'got steadily worse for 36 months, will "h* continued...
...The secopd course might result in some really useful legislation being carried...
...GERMANY NEEDS FOOD AND WORK...
...Socialists Demand Municipal Housing The housing situation U bad, a nd |i getting worse...
...The German people are tired ed politic...
...Following tha revolution afcs> joined the Social Democratic Party, and was elected among it* first M ' utios in the Reichstag of the r e - fiublic, and among the trst'lWHK: n that body...
...They don't cafe iHraK will happen tomorrow...
...Indeed they would be bound to support, and also to support the granting of trade .credits to Russia...
...They argue that labor has raised itself to the position of the second largest n » » l * f o 7^«5 is among this section, and is using his influence to g e t the Liberal* to support the labor government so long as it is promoting l e g i s l a t i o n ;^ which the Liberals are not oec^fSj(y h o-t , l e - .;\>.V: Mr...
...Asquith to find the opportunity to weekly nawspaper, Th* New Leader, roust help accompli*h...
...N The immediate effect of the British labor victory will be to strengthen the parliamentary methods of Socialist struggle and to stimulate independent working-class politics everywhere...
...The British Lsbor Tarty does not carry theoretical democracy to the point of thinking that a vote of the members of the party c a n select the most suitable, men to fill the various offices...
...This may still hold true with respect to the,very few remaining absolute states and to such countries in which the parliamentary regime has been suppressed by dictatorial rule, P S in Italy, Hungary and Spain...
...The Russian Soviet Government ia a government of Communists, but Russia is not a communist regime or a co-operative labor commonwealth...
...From this point of view the victory of the British Labor Party is infinitely more significant than, for instance, the past victories of the Australian Labor parties with their somewhat an unprecedente^co^ ; a prolonged and ruinous war followed by complete pauperization of the people and demoralization of the entirn'structure of government and industry...
...The Liberal Party at the recent General Election issued a program, which apart from nationalization and the Capital Levy, was almost identical with the labor proigram...
...The whole problem of ths present position is thin—Will the labor government, realising the limitations of its power, try to do heroic but impossible things...
...Then cani.cy/*.e Weimar Constitution, one o ( linest documents ever adopted in...
...The supper will be nerved at 6 p. ni.—or a t least, that is t h e intention...
...And yot in a sense it seams impossible to realize it...
...According t o constitutional practice the King will send for the leader of t h e official opposition and ask Mm to undertake to form a government...
...President Adam...
...THE two moit pressing pnobleros MM the...
...The Amendment will be carried, and the Prime Minister will resign...
...But short-lived as tUp first political rule of British labor may prove to be, it will be of inestimable benefit to the workers | of England and to the Socialist and labor movements of the world...
...SAYS WOMAN M.P...
...It would be good tactics for the labor government to take some of the most advsnced items which, are common to the two programs, and embody them in Parliamentary bills...
...The 192 Labor M. P.'s in the British House of Commons represent an organized membership in excess of three millions and a body of over four million electors...
...It would not help V i i y w i ig or anyone...
...The Labor Party cannot propose its scheme for a Capital Levy, because two-thirds of the House of Commons are opposed to it...
...Much wilt depend upon tho spirit of toleration and comradahip in tha Labor Party itself, and upon the extent to which every individual member realitex his individual responsibility to the party and to the cause...
...Others who will be present a re Morris Hillquit, Algernon Lee, Meyer London, J a c o b Panken, Abraham Cohan, and all the active and hardworking members of t h e p a r ty hereabouts...
...We hsve talked about a labor government aa a thing for which we warn working, and which we believed would some day, In tho course of historic evolution, com > to pass...
...When we I have that, it will be time t o talk of other things...
...building...
...Tens of millions, possibly hundreds of millions, of dollars have been poured out to private shippers, while our rulers have been horror-stricken whenever anyone suggested public ownership and operation, aa if one were to suggest the overturning of our most sacred institutions...
...If t h e emergency rant law* were needed in 1920 they are even more necessary at t h e present time...
...Then it will be solidly and permanently in the saddle and ha\*e its first opportunity to enter upon the systematic work of social reconstruction along the lines of its program...
...On the contrary, apart from the tact that they have had no previous experience in office, the c o m m e n t ia general in the capitalist press that ability and knowledge and administrative capacity the labor government wiil probably be the equal of any previous government, and certainly far superior to the present j Conservative government...
...Comrade Ramsay MscDonald has gone to his native place-in the North of Scotland for a holiday and to think out the way t h e very grave problem* he will have to face In a few weeks' time...
...All this ia due t o the imminence of A labor government in office...
...The masses of people have no alternative other thun U> live in foul, •flighted, insanitary, stinking kennels...
...A combination of tha Labor and Liberal vgtei in th* 4rrJaion lobby will give a majority of about 70 over the full Conservative numbers...
...In all those countries, extensive a n d far reaching plans of public housing is under way...
...the same newspapers made it a point to refer to it uniformly as the "Socialist" party of England...
...In I this way it is hoped to "dish" the [Labor Party, who will be discredited 'by a few months of 'office in which they have had no time to carry out any big programme...
...But It is coming much sooner than wo avar dreamt...
...Capital that had previously been invested in building was n ow being invested in munitions...
...not to establish a system of government owned snd operated shipping for public benefit, but to aul l b - profit seeking capitalist shipysW interests to the extent of ten* of milhon- of dollars...
...THsnfctharW will be in t h e nature , « p n and...
...The'energies of t he business world were directed toward the creation of engines of d e s t r u c tion...
...What comes/after the S u p p e r is a deeply guards^' soerett^pot even the e d i t o rs of The New-Leader being admitted "do the confidence of the managers of the affair...
...He will have to form his government almost wholly of untried men...
...She spoke of the oft^MsVHlft German workers to rebuild dajgjjif tated areas of Franca, which «M accepted by the French workers arid • inhabitants of the regions and rai jectcd by the French chauvinists...
...it will demonstrate the cltpacity of I the workers to govern, to govern better than the old parties, and to govern in the interests of the large masses of the people rather than for the privileged few...
...The Stock Exchange is stagnant...
...That would have iktury considerable beneficial effect on trade...
...They declare themselves in favor of the full diplomatic recognition of Russia...
...Its most serP ous difficulty will probably be in its I own party...
...n? ute" and to pay $5*0,000 for each |>f the steamers...
...That appears to be Mr...
...r I ^ I I K wildest political excitement prevails...
...It is a party dictatorship which may...
...It haa not a Parliamentary majority...
...The only way to take the political power out of the hands of the reigning dynasties was to capture it by force...
...There is a small extremist section of tha Labor Party which does not seem to realize the j facts of the situation, and sre pressl ing the party to act as if it were i a government with its own majority 1 in Parliament...
...THE victory of the British Labor Party, on the other haml, i« the result of normal political development, the fruft of a quiet, persistent and untiring work extending over gquarter of a century...
...As a minority party it cannot expect to carry a Socialist program...
...Every'Socialist party is easentia|ly ,a labor party and every political party of workers is bound In the long run to arrive at the economic and political conceptions of Socialism...
...t float the government 12...
...j j f o r e x a m p l d j s a w j t a t e Kae'cuflve ^ • f r i l t e e of the ijgrty, which will ^ B o t i a l i s i candidatc^ami^PwW * book that was I ho third best m * t )n the nnn-flctinn Held last jJVVw'ill bo piesenl Id represent t he Slli"* t n e , , l ' u l estate business, the "'We studioa, the university, pr»si"«nU and t h a Socialists of t h s Coast, And Kate Richards O'Hare will also be present F r a u Adele ,Schreiber, Socialist member of the German Reichstag, will be there too, to represent the international movement...
...There ia speculation, and the lowest rent aaked for Jhe n ew houses is $20 a room...
...arming erself ,and Poland and CsechoSlovakia...
...Capitalists and tin' * anciers are trembling with fright...
...So far aa one c an fathom it, it is t o l e t the Labor Party take office, and then when an opportunity comes to r e st the votes of his party with the Con IscrvatWes against the labor governf nent on an issue whieh will involve he resignation of the government...
...During the war, enthusiastic theorists declared that the ara of private, profit seeking shipping had passed forever...
...Ska la t ' J l HH speaker and s h e speak* English Vm a native...
...4,002,016.27 President Garfield 4,082,456.76 Presidsrit H a r r i s o n . . . . 4,063,628.03 President Hayes 4,063,950.73 President Monroe 4,076,336.66 President Polk: 4,076,332.30 President Van Buren...
...Tha only reason they don't overthrow everything in sight is because there Is no use to do anything at all...
...No Building for Years...
...Now, our people are starving and freezing...
...The Socialists realized at long ago as those early days that a housing rhortage was inevitable...
...Tot several years ttiere had been BO buildiftg...
...British Labor Government to Relieve Distress Recognition of Russia, Social Legislation and World Peace Planks in MacDonaid's Plan, Says Snowden...
...After t h r e e years of operation, a careful survey is made of t h e e n t i re situation by t h e very elements t h at have ' M e n supporting the laws, a n d their r e p o r t is t h a t t h e s i t u a t i o n is worse than it ever was...
...Since that time, there has 1 been no let-up in its work and struggles and no break in the i growth of its membership, vote and representation...
...Its rule is the result of steady and normal growth in electoral and parliamentary activities, and the country in which it operates is the largest and mightiest empire of the world...
...The dilapidated, insanitary old houses which were considered' "uninhabitable in 1920 are now f u l l y occupied and overcrowded...
...TAMB THB PROFIT OUT OF THE PEOPLE'S NEEDS...
...During the electoral campaign, when they expected the party would coma,out a bad third and lose its standing as the official oppogjfion...
...The speaker urged the passage of Congressman Victor U Bcrger% bill creating a revolving fund of f t * 000,000,000 to aid Germany recover, and she said that altar ijh* re-establishment of economic »tability Germany wanted a commission of experts to determine just how much she could pay...
...F r a u Schrieber showajJSh.it Germany is dependent upon her industries for the support of the people, white Russia Is essentially .an agricultural country...
...And what is France doing with tht money that has been paid in 1 reparations...
...They were, Jiowever, unintentionally, quite truthful in both instances...
...Which means that they cannot pay any mora billion* to France or any other country...
...the absence of a strong ruling class and of an effective political organization of the masses...
...That hope has been abandoned, f o r Mr...
...People Live In Kennels, Is Report Housing Conditions Worse After Three Years of "Emergency'' Laws...
...They ere ' f f i f r fS 'desperate...
...The British Labor Party comes yito power as an avowed Socialist organisation...
...The appearance of ThelNcw Leader will be welcomed l>y t h e Socialists of New York at un old-fashioned get-together that will be held tomorrow (Sunday) night a t t h e IVopVa House, 7 East IMWStreet...
...No leader of an o p p o s i t i o n ever had a more difficult situation...
...Asquith's 'game...
...It was such a Ane revolution," she said, "and t h e people were so eager for i t ! If the people had remained," nited, there would have been *UK> splendid progress...
...Just what this paper deserves...
...THE selection of the men to fill the various government posts will be left entirely to MacI Donald...
...If t he Labor Chancellor of the Exchequer confineSpjhis financial proposal* to the recognised methods of taxation there should be no difficulty in g e t ting a majority of th* House of Common* to support them...
...While the old party bungler* and real estate statesmen are fiddling with the housing problem, practically every Western European country has established the principle that is so repugnant to the American law makers, that is, that, a public need No F r a i l s in Housing In England, Holland, France, Belgium, Denmark and other countries, the principle haa been written into the law that no business man has the M M M> speculate in so vital a public need as'house...
...Aclele Schreiber, Socialist Member of German Parliament, Tells of Needs of Her People — Not Dictatorship, But -Chance to Work...
...There are others, and they are probably tha largest section of tha Liberal Party, who want to give a labor government a fair chance...
...In Hew York city the housing emergency still exists...
...s t y »PP< W l * V Ifiade, by tha Labor Tarty loTufc Liberals...
...And there is no provision in n ew building for moderately well off 'people...
...MUCH of course will depend upon the way in which the .labor government acts...
...history of the world...
...The rest of the world was,ruled by absolute monarchies in form or in substance...
...The Conservative Government, in spite of their overwhelming defeat at the polls, decided to hold on to office until they were dtamiaaed by a vote of the House of Commons...
...The success of the British Labor Party and t h e imminence of a Labor government in Great Britain a r e the sole rays of hope that brighten the f u t u r e of the German people, according to Adele Schreiber, Socialist member of the German Reichstag...
...Within recent years we have witnessed the establishment of labor governments in other countries, but the political victory of the English workers stands out as an event apart because of the combination of three salient circumstanres under which it hah been achieved...
...MifVj end unemployment...
...THERE are dilTereneaa in tha Liberal Party as to the attitude it should adapt towards a labor government holding office by its toleration...
...And Still there -»as-iiQ...
...Those who have heard her know what that means...
...r. , * I t V ' g o i n g to be a big party...
...they continue to rule by virtue of the political inertia of the Russian people...
...She spoke at tho Master conference of the Independent Labor Wrr ty of Great Britain last year, and is popular in Socialist circles 'H countries other titan ha^PWsfc...
...The "emergency laws" were passed in New York in September, 1920, and have been in operation for • littje over three yearn...
...Tenants' unions began to be formed...
...In the long run, it is also bound to have a powerful and salutary influence on the political cause of American labor...
...t h e commission : 1. Unjust, unreasonable and oppressive agreements are being generally exacted by landlords under t h e stress of prevailing conditions...
...The statements that were made by the Socialists six years ago are being made now by legislators and governors, who have only just discovered what inevitable result of speculation in this vital public need a t i f t be...
...k" It is only twenty-three years since the Labor Psrty was formed...
...That will have to wait until it can command a majority in the House of Commons and in the country...
...for with the exception of Comrade Clynes and Comrade Arthur Henderson (who is not in 1'aill*ment at present) no member of I ho Labor Party has had previous experience of government...
...The people had believed in the promised by Woodrow Wilson' for a free peace, and they Were compelled to witness tin betrayal of those promises...
...It can command only 192 v o t e * oik of a total Parliamentary memberahip of 616...
...The most exaggerated fears of impending disaster are prevalent...
...TO leave no doubt about its otand, the Parliamentary group of the Labor Party has chosen as its official leader a prominent and life-long Socialist and has deliberately sought and obtained an opportunity to announce to the whole world its full acceptance of the p h i l o s o p h y and program of Socialism by precipitating the famous Socialist debate in the last parliamentary session...
...poorer quarters as a result of congestion, due to scarcity of dwelling accommodations and high rents, constitute a distinct menace to public welfare, health and morals...
...2. Such is the scarcity in dwelling accommodations, especially in N ew York city, that freedom of contract between - landlords, and tenants no longer o b t M U . U •MSZapMitt* m* m \ Mi,a»v i» . w...
...Our British comrades entertain no illusions about tho stability of their first government...
...Rents have risen continuously and congestion has increased, families are being forced into poorer and smaller quarters, They are obliged to double UP, two families living in rooms;which under norma) conditions would be occupied by one family...
...THE LABOR GOVERNMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN By MORRIS HILLQUIT THE advent of the hrstdabor government in Great Britain will mark a definite turning point in the world'* history...
...PEOPLE MULCTED OF MILLIONS IN SALE OF SHIPS "President" Ships, Costing $28,000,000, Sold to Rob...
...Seven ships t h a t cost the people W8.501.HM.OZ when the people were besought to " g i v e until it nurts" were •>old the other /day to the Dollar Steamship I.me of California for ,$;ii#60.000...
...Their morale is geUil)g lower and lower...
...A labor | government will find the national j finance* in a very aeriooa situation | There will probably be a deficit on , the budget this year, and additional taxation may have to be imposed to meet that deficit, which will make it difficult to increase taxation atitl {urthar for schemes of social rearm...
...Out of that baa arisen this scandalous situation...
...Competent real estate men have said that IF THERE WERE NO SPECULATION IN THIS VITAL PUBLIC NEED homes could be built and rented at $<> and $7 a room...
...It will be a r a re t r e a t . Morris Herman has reserved a table, as have t h e irrepressible Yipgels, and t h e 6th A. I ) , Manhattan...
...t h e n is a population of several hundred'thou ami in New York -and presumably in all large cities—condemned to l i v e in eld Are trap tenements with dark stairways, and sanitation that cannot be, described in decent language...
...The'report says...
...But...
...It would be difficult for Mr...
...And it is very gratifying to know that on the whole wo are prepared for i t Wo may not realise alt that may be expected from a labor gov...
...In America, no one has had the vision and foresight to make the same demand except the Socialists...
...Tho conditions of upkeep and repair have grown steadily worse...
...But the Old j a r t y "statesmen" had proper answer to the Socialists...
...Otherwise, the future is dark, and the people of Germany are sinking into despair...
...requites "•on the occas&*»of it* flJ|A'li»iie...
...It will effectively break down the age-long political superstition that government is the exclusive function of the capitalistic political parties...
...It is mora likely to lead to a plit I in his own party, and to a great .i« Mission of strength to labor...
...But in most advanced countries of Europe, political democracy seems firmly established, and in these the transition from capitalist to Socialism is more likely '^*T^chKcprized by the alterna"t|njr poIHicaTTnle 0 f capital it labor th.u by a "dictatorship ofthe proletariat," and the nnal passing of political power to the latter is more likely Jo come by a decfslve electoral victory than by ar revolution in the conventional sense...
...From its conservative starting point of * mere reform program, the party was by the logic of the political light driven toinore advanced positions year after yearvuntil in 1918, it made the unequivocal declaration in its constitution that its object is "to secure to the producers by hand or try...
...The British labor Party is a party of both labor and.Socialism, In fact it could not be otherwise...
...The dlamantling of Germany's indujrtrijjs and the occupation of the Ruhr meant that the German pa'bpte . aM left entirely without means to support themselves...
...Asquith appears to be playing a very deep and clever game...
...The Executive of the Labor Party has unanimously dscidad that in such an event the Parliamentary Labor Party mu»t accept tha Invitation and C um gjji, Kamaay Mac Donald will then proceed to form his government It will ba a purely labor government...
...This would put the Liberals in the position of having cither to I support these bills or repudiate their election pledges...
...Robert Dollar was given 12 years in which to pay...
...WELCOME PARTY FOR NEW LEADER ON SUNDAY NIGHT People's House to Be Scene of Supper and Jollification — Upton Sinclair, Adele Schreiber, M. P., Hillqu.it, Panken \ViU Be There...
...They speak for the workers of their country by direct/mandate, not merely as self-constituted guardians...
...or will It try to get through Parliament some useful nut | moderate legislation with tha support it can g e t from the Liberal...
...ert Dollar for Less Than $4 000,000—Federal Aid for Profit Takers But No Public Enterprise...
...ThelJDfP-^ •Is profess to favor an international policy which is practically identical with that of the Labor Party and th* Socialist International...
...Asquith, addressing a meeting of his supporters shortly after election, announced that his party would do nothing to keep the present discredited government in power...
...But it is doubtful if it will {work out quite as ho has planned...
...Tha Labor Party is under no deluiiona aa t o the difficulty of Its poiltion in these circumstance...
...Commiatioa'e Report On t h e basis of these findings t he commission urged the extension of t h e emergency rent laws in all t he t i t i e i u> whs,-!* pJfX'eY* present apply, except...
...brain the full fruits of their industry,anj the most equitable distribution thereat that may be possible, upon the basin of the common ownership of the means of production, and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry or service...
...THE contemporary political developments in Great Britain offer abundant food for interesting reflection about the methods of Socialist struggle ami the probable form of Socialist success...
...Even if Germany should go down, even if our people and o u r Republic are destroyed, the Constitution, with i ts freedom tor everyone, its splendid .provisions for t h e welfare of women, and children will remain as a monument for all time...
...They were paused aa a r e s u l t of a situation ( h a t made certain people fear that unless something were done, there might be riots and bloodshed...
...The hour fur t h e beginning of the festivities has been fixed for 6 p. m. The b ig a u d i t o r i um will be packed, according $*> present indications, a nd this pupejris due for a royal sendoff on the, p a r t of those whose enthiHasm ami faith in their cause has made, JtSM appearance possible...
...lha asked...
...I am confident labor in otUe, i. not in power, wall justify that claim of the common people to govern their own country...
...In spite of the large dumber of dwellings constructed during'this laat two years, tenant* are in- no better position today than they were in 1920 t o bargain with landlords...
...Such a policy, involving an understanding between the Liberals and the Tories, will make it plain to everyi body that the main motive of t h >*e two parties Is to kill th« Labor Party...
...the only way to accomplish a change of government was by revolution...
...A moderate secession e f Liberals to t h e Conservatives might at any time secure a hostile veta against the labor government* In the past it has bean the usual praetice for a government to regard any hostile vote on an Important.lasue as decisive, and to resign I n wKr quence...
...Editor* note: The following article wan written by Snowden for American-reader* in anticipation of the overthrow of the Baldwin government, and the aseumptitn of office by the Labor Party...
...826,000, v -j Tha "President'' ships were all built under contrast by the New York Shipbuilding Company of Camden, If, J-,Mi » w rated as "a-l E" by tho American bureau of shipping...
...He hopes that the King will refuse J to accept advice of the Labor Prime Minister to dissolve Parliament and | have a general election, but will isend for him to form a new government, which ha will do by an understanding with the Conservatives...
...But with the close of the war, the situation became intolerable...
...MhaHwhile, the Socialist Party is continuing its tight to popularise the idea of municipal housing *H tho only way out o f t h e jam...
Vol. 1 • January 1924 • No. 1
