British Labor Party Built on Socialist Ideals Shows the Way
P., HERBERT MORRISON, M.
British Labor Party Built on Socialist Ideals Shows the Way For U. S. Workers WON POLITICAL SUCCESS SIT FIGHTING THE OLD PARTIES, STAKING ALL OH INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES, OWING NO OTHER GROUP AMY...
...As in Parliament, they were opposed by the older parties, but in time Labor brought about changes for the better in the policy of local authorities...
...So it was with the movement that made our Labor Party possible...
...It is inspired with a broad vision and idealism...
...But America should know that the majority of British people are ashamed of its Government...
...LABOR TRIUMPHS IN LOCAL ELECTIONS AND then came the days of Labor majorities on local authorities in some of the provincial cities and urban districts...
...The result was establishment of the Labor Representation Committee, which later became known as the Labor Party, and soon succeeded in establishing a substantial parliamentary group independent of the old parties...
...Eden's exposure of the Government, is an indication that England, the real England, stands firm in its defense of decency and justice...
...The Japanese, who have farmed the ^^•eas with their fishing boats, seem to confine themselves to ^Lyn*ge on 'anc* an(^ ^e...
...We replied that it was a prime duty of public authority—national and local—to deal with the condition of the people, and that we would give the older parties ho peace until they altered their ways...
...Our recent victory at the Ipswich by-election and, even more, the notable triumph at the West Fulham by-election, where Dr...
...THE Government attached the greatest importance to * this election, and I regard as extremely important the fact that they played the Conservatives' trump card...
...Chamberlain might have turned with some optimism for a vote of confidence...
...peace and fraternity between nations and the rights of colonial peoples—these have been among the causes to which the British Labor Party set its hand with no small degree of success...
...S. Fascist Spies Invade Panama Canal Zone •v • ¦ Part 11 IN time of war all, sorts of information is of vital importance which has little to do with military or naval secrets...
...perhaps a municipal housing scheme...
...The international espionage 2r*rOUIM* WOT^> which knew that the shipment of arms was it that Japan, Germany and Italy split the cost of the >**0Pg themselves to gain the friendship of the Nicaraguan study of Japanese, Nazi and Italian activities around the *nd "sensitive zone" points to an apparent division of work these three powers...
...Daring the election we heard such cries as "Country before party," and "England expects every man to do his doty...
...Even Church dignitaries ' were recruited to warn the people of the dire results of voting against a National Government...
...In any case, as in my country, questions of trade union structure and organization must be determined by the trades union movement and not by political organizations...
...In Spanish, j^jaa^Portuguese and English, regular programs are sent across g*,yt«'iment expense...
...The result was Aat the Labor Party was decimated in Parliament, and in West Fulham the Conservative won by 24,000 to 12,000 votes...
...We were fishing for bait...
...And so he did...
...Jn time of peace, the friendship of these governments so intensively propagandized, means supremacy over the United States in the struggle for markets...
...The Japanese, who have been fishing along the west coast of Panamanian waters for years, are the only fishermen who find it necessary to use sounding lines to catch fish...
...Since the Japanese-Nazi "anti-Communist pact," Nazi have been sent to German colonies in Central and South Sam ha to organize them, carry on propaganda and cooperate *W«tly with Japanese agents...
...And then the greatest triumph of all: after 15 years of vigoronjfclidependent fighting as an opposition, the Lawtar majority on the London County .CounriW^Pjfc world's greatest single municipality—in flMp and a bigger majority in 1937...
...For Labor stands for order in the place of disorder, for construction in the place of destruction, for cooperation in the place of destroying conflict...
...We built better schools —sunshine schools—and brought in great educational reforms...
...But the West Fulham election, the only one to take place since Mr...
...Let me illustrate: - The known vulnerability of the Canal caused the United States » flan another through Nicaragua...
...The use of sounding lines by Japanese fishermen and the mysterious goings and comings of their boats became a little too pronounced for the Panamanian government to ignore and it issued a decree prohibiting all aliens from fishing in Panamanian waters...
...We pat London County under town planning control...
...IUST as there are certain similarities between ** your Republican Party and out Conservative Party, and between your Democratic Party and our Liberal Party, so there exist some features in common between the American and Brtish Labor parties, although inevitably and properly, differences in the respective national spirit and traditions affect all of these parties...
...In time of war, should Japan, Germany, and Ifely be on the enemy side, it means more than one base of operations within easy flying time of America's life line...
...British experience shows that Empire is no solution of the poverty problem...
...factory and mining regulation...
...matic representatives do not usually witness purely business ^•actions, but this was a shipment worth $300,000 which the ff™an government knew Nicaragua could not pay...
...The fishing vessel was on a submerged ledge and couldn't get off.' * » » IN the morning the authorities found her, took oft" her captain and * crew, all of whom had cameras, and asked why the boat was in restricted waters...
...This was in 1929, Labor's peak year, and we were assisted then by a division of the anti-Labor vote...
...And why not...
...SECOND VICTORY IN LONDON I ONDON liked us and returned us by a bigger " majority in 1937...
...MESSAGE OF LABOR NEEDED TODAY 11/E believe that our Labor and Socialist mes™ sage and its application to practical affairs is badly needed in the muddled world of today...
...ChamberIain's policy is dictated by the will of the people...
...Sounding lines are used to measure the depths of the waters and to locate submerged ledges and covered rocks in this once mountainous area...
...The captain piloted the boat from previous general knowledge of the waters rather than by chart when suddenly there was a harsh, grating sound...
...Chamberlain's point of view...
...It liked us not only, for our policy, but for our efficiency and our incorruptibility...
...jBlE decent honest Englishman sees China, Abyssinia, Spain and Austria raped in turn by the aggressor patioh ' wnose * actions are condoned, and even encouraged, by our own Government...
...British Lafjor moves forward to power...
...And in due course we were to make our own contributions under the two minority Labor Governments...
...It is two hours' flying time from Cali to the Canal...
...Let there be no mistake about the importance of this result...
...Read what she wrote to the editors of The New Leader: "f created a precedent in British Parliamentary history by being sworn in and signing my own name, Summerskill and not that of my husband which is Jeffrey Samuel...
...The friendship of the Nicaragua n ewernment and people is of great importance not only from a '"¦"¦ereial standpoint but as a war measure...
...We see the power I of the Dictator grow until England herself is threatened We see the prestige of England decline month by month...
...And so emerges a tremensous conflict...
...His press and his candidate repeatedly stressed the fact that they would stand or fall Wthe Government's foreign policy...
...the better housing of the people...
...As minorities they were successful in winning reforms: perhaps a first maternity and child welfare center...
...Government subsidized news agencies ^t°e newspapers with "news dispatches" which they sell at j l*trLj" Prj°e or givfe away- The programs and the "news disexplain and glorify the totalitarian form of government, and since many of the sister "republics" are dictatorships, they are ideologically sympathetic and receptive...
...Herein, I think, lies the real tragedy of West Fulham from Mr...
...In order to appreciate the real significance of this event, vou must understand the background...
...But bait is caught in the daytime by all other fishermen,*' the officials pointed out...
...And it was all done by a young attractive doctor, a mother of two children . . . Dr...
...Indeed, the British Conservatives and Liberals now boast of their records in social legislation, records which we forced on "them by the education of public opinion, the rousing of the national conscience, and our electoral danger to them...
...Only on one occasion in its previous history has West Fulham, a typical London ''dormitory" constituency, returned a member of the Labor Party...
...confidence of the country...
...Here, then, was a constituency to which Mr...
...All this had the effect, as in national affairs, of educating public opinion and shaming the older parties into action of a" more progressive character, even though insufficiently...
...And it is near Cali that Alejandro Tujun, a Japanese in costant touch with the Japanese Foreign Office, is today dickering for the purchase of 400,000 acres of level land for "colonization...
...Whilst both American and British Labor parties share a number of broad principles in common, your Labor Party must be American and must relate its organization and policy to American needs, temperament and conditions...
...Labor had won tho first public test hold since Eden had resigned...
...The Japanese colony was settled on land carefully chosen— long, level, flat acres which can be turned into an air base overnight for a fleet landed from an airplane carrier or assembled on the spot...
...This world of ours can be a good world whenever humanity is sensible enough to make it so...
...THE Nazis are strong in Colombia, south of the Canal, with a * bund traning regularly in military maneuvers at Cali...
...the Trade Unions play a big part in your Labor Party: so they do in ours...
...Following years of propaganda by Socialist organizations, the British Trades Union Congress in 1899 approved the separate formation of a political Labor body...
...Herr Hitler.and Signor Mussolini, bankrupt of the ability or tie desire for rational economic reconstruction, have led many of the German and Italian people to believe quite wrongly—that military conquest and territorial aggrandizement will solve the economic problem* of their countries...
...They are fearful lest progressive nations should believe that Mr...
...f decades Japanese in the Canal Zone area have been photofwehing everything in sight, not only around the Canal, but for **h"Jf of miles north and south of it, and its fishing fleet has "•en taking soundings of the waters along the coast and its whors...
...And with whom...
...In its earlier years the Labor Party of my country was faced with a heavy and bitter struggle...
...I make bold to say that Mr...
...the right to work or maintenance...
...Although it independently controls its own policy, the American Labor Party has supported the election of progressive members of other parties to office as well as its own members when it considered such action expedient, whereas the British Labor Party seeks to promote full tickets of Labor Party candidates at every election, everywhere, and gives no aid to candidates of other parties...
...We did many other things, and we earned a high reputation' for incorruptibility, for we were the foes of jobbery and improper influences...
...We cleared the poor law spirit out of the Council's 74 hospitals and made them splendid municipal, civic places of healing, available to all classes in the community...
...in both cases individual membership from all sections of the community is welcomed, but in the case of the American Labor Party, Trades Union organizations only are accepted for collective affiliation, whereas in our case Socialist organizations and cooperative societies are accepted as affiliated bodies...
...Majority of British Ashamed of Cabinet' By EDITH SUMMERSKILL *r Semmerskill's own story bos appeared is bo other publicoft* SS America and is written specially far The New Leader...
...A Liberal candidate polled some 6ft00 votes, most of which would presumably, in his absence, have gone to the Conservative, who was defeated i by 2,000-odd votes...
...Since its inception the British Labor Party has attached big importance to local government...
...First Italy offered scholarships, with all •••ases paid, for Nicaraguan students to study fascism in Italy...
...Italy, which had been only mildly ¦Jsrested in Central America, has become extremely active in OMUvating the friendship of Central American republics since she *«»ed the Tokyo-Berlin tie-up...
...In its broadest sense, the aim of the American Labor Party is to provide the hard-working, useful citizens of New York State, whether engaged in agriculture or industry,' with progressive government...
...I ONDON.—The election at West Fulham has resulted k in a win for the Labor Party candidate and the defeat of she National Government nominee...
...Efforts to gain Nica^y**» friendship were started by Italy when she joined the ee-Nasi line-up...
...perhaps better sanitary inspection of poor housing property...
...HPHE entrances on either side of the Panama Canal are secretly *¦ mined...
...pOJI the first time in parliamentary history the world press reported the result of a by-election in Ml...
...This was an appeal for national unity in a time of crisis...
...At the 1937 elections the number of Labor controlled Borough Councils -increased from 15 to 17 out of 28 and we increased our numbers in the other Boroughs...
...And, if his foreign policy had the support of the public, he should have commanded the herd-like allegiance of 1931...
...We planned the Green Belt around London and improved the open spaces...
...workmen's compensation for industrial accidents...
...And let it be remembered that poverty and insecurity—the insecurity of capital as well as Labor—are prolific causes of war and international friction...
...By HERBERT MORRISON, M.P...
...In April, 1937, the Taiyo Maru, flying the American flag but manned by Japanese, hauled up her anchor in the dead of night and with all lights out chugged from the unrestricted waters into the area where the mines are generally believed to be laid...
...The American Labor Party is an independent organization in New York State only...
...jj'J Similar good work has been done by the Labor Metropolitan Borough Councils which function in the London County Council area...
...On this many acres enough military men could be colonized to give the United States a first-class headache in time of war—if any head was left when they got through attacking...
...We looked after the blind and the homeless...
...We planned open air swimming pools...
...But, today g^bes a firm foothold in the country through which the United Stf* kc-pes to build another canal...
...A" December 14, 1937, about one month after a secret Nazi • agent arrived in Central America with orders to step on the »"»eganda and organizational activity, the Italian steamship **Ieme sailed out of Naples with a cargo of guns, armored cars, *,PBt»m artillery, machine guns and a considerable amount of ¦nnutions...
...Its program will be extended as the members desire it to be extended...
...We or* ganized a service of municipal midwives...
...When she took office tor...
...unions are both to be found in the ranks of the American Labor Party...
...Edith Summerskill...
...constitutional and electoral changes for the more effective working of democracy...
...Your Labor Party had a modest and local beginning...
...Your Labor Party is practical: so is ours...
...We put public assistance on a humane basis and reformed the administration...
...But the awkward aaestions being asked are, "Against whom are we to •fit...
...it stands for social security at tome and peace abroad: so does ours...
...We in England long for the closest cooperation between ourselves and the English-speaking American nation...
...I thought perhaps your feminists would like to know this...
...It has, therefore, avoided controversy within its ranks in relation to the regrettable dispute between the American Federation of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organization...
...The hard fight for the independent existence of the party gave us the will to live, the power to fight against heavy odds, the glorious capacity to sacrifice for a great cause...
...the Germans to propaganda in Central •fc Pta»t{l Anierica' and the Italians to winning the friendship of . "A«J111Mian and Nicaraguan governments, ^¦'ood of Nazi propaganda sent on short wave beams is Ca^lfr ^ Cer"tral and South America from Germany...
...We planned to clear every slum and to end overcrowding, to provide a decent single residence for every London family...
...And the good work goes on...
...We made the Fire Brigade efficient...
...I hope that the West Fulham result has shown that we are deserving of your continued friendship...
...In these circumstances poverty and insecurity ace unnatural and constitute an offense to the dignity of Man...
...There is no natural shortage of wealth...
...Labor Councillors — sometimes solitary Labor members of Councils—and Labor Groups entered the local authorities and made their influence felt...
...A pre-war situation, his foreign policy clearly indicated, and the nation ranting tprinst him...
...DEALT WITH ALL SOCIAL CONDITIONS AT the beginning, we were told by both Conservative and Liberal parties that it was not the business of Parliament to deal with a wide range of social and economic issues, and that the less public authorities concerned themselves with such matters the better...
...If the present Government had the country behind it, then we would deserve the condemnation of all lovers of liberty and democracy, and we would have forfeited all claim to their sympathy and support...
...its membership independently determines its policyf so does ours...
...To be continued next week...
...A. F. of L. unions and C.I.O...
...January 11, 1938, the Secretary of the Italian Legation in •?w J°se, Costa Rica, flew to Managua, Nicaragua, to witness the fF7*ryof arms which arrived in Managua on January 12, 1938...
...It is on the basis of these principles and objectives that the British Labor Party has been built...
...Since the Japanese-Nazi pact, the Japanese established a colony of several hundred at Corrinto in the Cauca Valley, thirty miles from Cali...
...perhaps municipal transport or gas or water or electricity...
...The British people had repulsed a friendly attitude towards fascism...
...Chamberlain had lost...
...We launched schemes of highway improvements...
...Edith Summerskill has just won a fine victory, shows that Labor is gaining the...
...health reforms, especially in the interest of mothers and infants...
...Apart from its unceasing Socialist propaganda, the British Labor Party early fought for legislative enactments calculated to secure some sort of national minimum of civilized existence...
...The ttat time this card was played was in 1931, when the cenntry was thrown into a state of panic by the financial & There was an appeal to the patriotic emotions of the people to save the pound...
...At the last election, in 1935, the Conservative candidate was returned with a majority of 3,483...
...Any fleet which plans to approach the Canal or use harbors even within several hundred miles north or south of the Canal must have this information to know just where to go and how near to shore they can approach before sending out landing parties...
...The National Government is appealing for the enthusiastic help of the Trade Unions in speeding up the naaments program, and every individual is being asked to sacrifice himself to a national need...
...the legal freedom of the Trades Unions...
...A potential •* planning to land an expeditionary force must know the Wast hoe, the depths of waters around it, chart the hidden rocks and submerged ledges, the topography of the land, the systems end methods, of communication, the ability of the country to feed an expeditionary force, as well as cultivate the friendship of the fwerument to get co-operation...
...West Fulham she sat Another precedent...
...The feeding and medical care of school children and wider educational opportunities...
...Within a week of the 1984 victory, we were W action, for we believed that it was our duty to use promptly, constructively and in the public interest the power conferred upon us by the people...
...STORY OF THE BRITISH LABOR PARTY f ET me now try to give you the story of the *-* British Labor Party...
...The locations of these mines iS~one of the most carefully guarded secrets of the American navy and one of the most sought after by international spies...
...Chamberlain hoped far a return to the 1931 standard...
...There is an abundance of capital and the means to create more capital...
...The Taiyo Maru operated out of San Diego, California, and once established a world record of being 111 days at sea without catching a single fish...
...There is a high degree of industrial skill and scientific knowledge...
...That can only be solved by the public ownership and the wise direction in the public interest of the great instrument of wealth production and distribution...
...British Labor Party Built on Socialist Ideals Shows the Way For U. S. Workers WON POLITICAL SUCCESS SIT FIGHTING THE OLD PARTIES, STAKING ALL OH INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES, OWING NO OTHER GROUP AMY ALLEGIANCEIT WON ITS RANK AMD FILE BY HONEST PROPAGANDA AMD EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY...
...We made no promises we could not keep and kept the promises we made...
...And now the electoral signs go to show that Labor's prospects at the next Parliamentary General Election are becoming definitely brighter...
...We won in principle, for within a few years a Liberal Government was passing substantial social reforms, and Conservative Governments have been compelled to follow suit...
...Similar British considerations affect the Labor Party of my country...
...With enthusiasm and determination it goes forward in the building of a nobler Britain and a peaceful world...
...I didn't know where I was," said the captain...
...We thought we might catch some at night," the captain explained blandly...
Vol. 21 • April 1938 • No. 17
