A PAGE OF SPECIAL DESPATCHES ON THE BRITISH ELECTION
A Page of 'Special Despatches on the British Election Baldwin Attack on Socialism Misses Fire, Says Mac Donald; Tories Want Him to Drop Line Followers of Tory Premier Want Him To "Lay...
...If they do not do that, they will forfeit the 150 pounds which they have to deposit when they are nominated...
...It to a good program as far as it goes...
...I do not say that people should not protect themselves against any calamity that may befall them as a result of that mysterious way in which banks move their wonders to perform...
...This applies, he points out, particularly to trade and commerce...
...The "Manchester Guardian" has been doing its best to get an electoral understanding between Liberalism and Labor...
...I therefore propose to work out a formula that shall determine the point in a legatee's career which is early enough to make it worth his father's while to leave him money, yet late enough to give him time to perform enterprising work for the community...
...It wants to listen and reflect, and it will resent the intrusion of any inflamed tub-thumping windbag for whatever side he may speak...
...Their demonstrations in the country are always carefully organized...
...Is Worried About His Credit By Yaffle ¥ ONDON,—Now that the Election is drawing near, I propose to write a series of articles for The New Leader, exposing the fallacies of Socialism and to conteract the one-sidedness of your journal...
...If a man Is only incited to work by the chance of leaving money to his children, what about the children...
...My American readers should also remember this...
...We shall secure an ample support from them...
...It is a vain dream...
...Nothing is held sacred: and there is-no more lamentable sign of It than these irreligious proposals to usurp the power of the banks...
...This protest against the socriligious abuse of banks has frequently been made by the more high-minded type of statesmen...
...Garvin therefore says: "For God's sake drop this subject of Nationalization...
...They expected fists, and they got gestures...
...As the discomfiture' of the present Government becomes more and more certain the anti-Labor forces will help the Liberals...
...but now a Tory js in the field and there to no Liberal up to" the present...
...This is a new and startling theory...
...At the same time, certain happenings in Scotland and elsewhere call for explanation W. M. Watson...
...It has also been objected that this theory of incentive to get rich as the motive-power in industry would condemn the policy of high tariff...
...there is a middle section which rarely attends and does sometimes one thing and sometimes another...
...Having made it clear that the greatest danger of Socialism is to lay impious bands on the banks, I can prouced to expose other fallacies...
...Political Robbery For five or six years a body of Liberal experts have been preparing this program, says Mr...
...No Liberals, in the House of Commons or out of It...
...He warns the country against trusting the government to the inetperiensel hands of the Socialists...
...In this I cannot do bets* than quote Dean Inge...
...Death has struck down ten members of parliament in the last three month...
...Gwilvm Rowlands, an unemployed coal miner, has been elected Chairman of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations...
...One section invariably speaks and votes with the government...
...Lloyd Oeerge, to outlining his programme for the reduction of the unemployed by a minion wiuun a tow month* of the Liberal Party coming into power after the General Rtoction...
...The fight as staged did not come off...
...Reduction of expenditure on armaments, peace abroad, road improvement, electrical development, the development of the country-side, the removal of the slums, and more telephones—this Is the sum and substance of the staggering "Liberal" program which Is to sweep the country...
...The simple reply to that claim is that they have bat plenty of opportunities and the problems are with us still in an aggravated form...
...I see them in our meetings...
...Yaffle Wants Socialists To Stop Criticizing Banks...
...She is not yet a violent partisan, and wants to know what she is voting for...
...And so deep is that popular conviction that no new effort on the part of Mr...
...In regard to the reduction ef expenditure on armament*, we might remind Mr...
...For days the Liberal press has been proclaiming that a speech which was about to be delivered by Mr...
...I am told that this seriousness Is mainly due to the woman voter...
...They cannot get the country to be interested In them...
...Having money already, they will have no incentive to work...
...The question is, for how much will they count...
...Labor candidates must be run in every constituency where we have the slightest hold...
...The speech itself suggests that they have confined their labors to studying Labor pamphlets and Labor speeches, for there is not in the program an item which has not been advocated from a thousand Labor platforms, and which was not embodied in "Labor and the Social Order" ten years ago, and which is not now to be found in "Labor and the Nation...
...This appears, at first sight, a snorter...
...Inventions, improvements, enterprise, the organization of a large business, are almost always the work of men who wish to make money and, if possible, to 'found a family.'" These are "the only rewards that kindle his ambitions...
...He just wouldn't do it, you see...
...The election took place in the Bast Toxeth division of Liverpool...
...The Labor Party has been carrying en an educational campaign amongst women, and they are now amongst our moat devoted workers...
...Voters do not get much inspiration in voting for a group whose only function will be to sell itself to another party...
...There is no echo of it here...
...John Qretton, MP...
...there is a small Left section which generally votes with us...
...A difficulty arises here...
...George speaks an tot meamwswto ef past Liberal ami Twy neglect...
...The labor Party vote was disappointing...
...Safeguard too much and you win kill enterprise...
...Several Tories have been to me expressing regrets, and resentment has been shown...
...I have in my possession a bus-ticket dropped by a prominent banker at the bottom of Cheapside...
...The case against Nationalisation, upon which the Tory Party depends so much, was being knocked into smithereens, and it was not even putting up its fists...
...It means that if, by taxation for social services, or by nationalization, we remove from business men and manufacturers the chance of making as much money as they can and .leaving it to their children, nothing will get done...
...It is our greatest consolation in times of trouble...
...Lloyd George...
...It is even said that his speech lost the seat...
...Liberal-Tory Deals Being Worked Out Collusion Goes On Despite Denials by Both Reno tionary British Parties Car • lanr tassel CwasspMteat) LCWPOW^-gierjuodi to the lobbies of the Howe of Gammons to dtoensatog Mm electoral situation to the east of Scotland, where the TiTbrrab) in the Kirkcaldy Burghs have Just decided to support the prospective Tory candidate to apposition to Tom Kennedy, MP...
...It would rend our ranks from top to bottom...
...The Tories are quite right in being angry with the Liberals for running a full list cf candidates, and we are also right in not being in the least disturbed by the threat...
...What Sir Robert definitely denies to that he has taken part in any election deal either in Montrose or elsewhere...
...Bat there is a great margin which is still enquiring...
...Labor hopes to win the North Lanark and Boston elections...
...He bad been challenged to substantiate both his figures and bis tales...
...For these things, we are indifferent...
...some of my Mends thought I was too optimistic and for once bad stjaadoned my caution...
...but if there is no hope of realizing them, this work, which is essential to the welfare of the community, will simply not be done...
...Churchill rants with energy and spirit, and disturbs his Party with his meaningless and ineffective violence...
...Sir Robert has denied categorically that be baa made any deal with the Tories to his constituency...
...Lloyd George, for good reason or bad, has lost the confidence of everybody...
...has proved itself incapable of carrying out the mission of a progressive party...
...It to met far me to sssmj the prelaw' •of asty **4to**vgpBM...
...Millions of unemployed standing in a cold queue feel warm and happy at the thought of the unimpaired stability of the banks...
...Here again we need a formula to establish the exact amount of 8tate assistance necessary to keep industries safe from foreign competition without making them so safe that the industrialists have no incentive...
...One might go through all the etotos Mr...
...He had four years of office after the War, supported by a large Parliamentarv ma; 3 ; % >. ",j jap The conditions, with which tins "US* era...
...One of the wwwtitiirnwrs, South Battersea, was held by the Government by a majority of over 5,000...
...There they were in the ring waiting for him at the Free Trade Hall, He saw them not...
...Tories Want Him to Drop Line Followers of Tory Premier Want Him To "Lay Off" Nationalization By J. Ramsay MacDonald...
...I say irreligious advisedly...
...Rather he chose two innocent spectators from his audience and proceeded to spar with their shadows, which be pretended were the doctrines of the Labor Party...
...the chief Labor whip, while to the neighboring constituency of Montrose the Unionists have decided not to oppose the sitting member, Sir Robert Huscbjsna...
...apart from party considerations, it would be bad political tactics...
...and it is clear that anything which exercises such unlimited and incalculable power over the welfare of a community, as the banks do, is no ordinary human agency...
...Two we held by greatly increased majorities, and two we gained...
...The moral of it all is that we must not remove from man the chance of leaving a fortune to his family, or the social and industrial system will come to an end...
...Major Douglas should be sent to the Tower, until the sleep of peaceful citizens had ceased to be bothered by his formulate...
...Surely good enough to be going on with...
...When a man has to close down his works for lack of orders, he comforts himself with the thought that the national credit stands high...
...In Parliament, they do not work as a team...
...The Tories still regard her in the main as a "flapper" who is to be bad by social patronage, tea parties, whist drives, and nice addresses by noble and respectable dames...
...Churchill lost ground in fate party and the country...
...I have given a lead...
...Oeorge that he was a number of a Government which inereamt the annual naval expenditure lulsssn 1907 and 1914 by £30,000,000...
...it would split the Liberal Party...
...Lloyd George gleaned a few stalks of com...
...Only in name is the Liberal group in Parliament a party...
...Always a Tory stronghold and carried five year* ago by the conservatives with a plurality over the labor party of 9,000, on Tuesday, the Tories again captured the seat but had its vote cut by fully 6,000...
...Again, speaking to the Anti-Saloon League, he indulged in violent tubthumping of the most inartistic kind...
...Baldwin recently made it clear that the most serious aspect of the Socialist menace was the proposal to nationalize the banks...
...Labor MJ...
...This would leave the Tories with but torn seats where they held five...
...It means that if you prevent him from realizing his aspirations, Ebenezer Q. Bloop, the famous inventor and maker of Bloops Blood, Brain, and Body-building Balsam, will cease to provide a grateful world with a pennyworth of calomel and liquorice at fifty cents a bottle at all drug-stores...
...In principle, and in view of the problems which we have to face...
...Though that is going too far, I know positively that it lost some votes...
...After it, the face of politics was to be changed...
...But the problem of the reaction is not merely to fight us...
...Inset is a picture of the new Chairman to Court dress...
...People who teach young persons that the words of bank managers are not inspired, should be judged insane and detained during the King's pleasure...
...in 1923 it was a Liberal, and a Liberal is in the field now...
...but 4,*jr every aBM* : it mm Padre...
...The only interest they do create—and it is not a good one for getting votes— is whether the Tories and ourselves will be so near to each other that the Parliamentary balance will be held by the small Liberal group which will survive the election...
...All four of the seats were held by the Tories...
...So far as a Liberal revival goes, it is negligible, and will not mean the return of fifty members to the new Parliament...
...Winding up the Tory campaign at South Battersea, he descended to rather poor personalities, particularly against myself...
...Though It polled about 1,000 more than the Liberals, its vote declined about 100 below its 1934 figure...
...It is a body of individuals and of sub-groups which have chosen Mr...
...A writer in the "Manchester Guardian," who described the gathering in the Free Trade Hall, wrote that it was the greatest failure ever made by a Prime Minister in that Hall, and the "New Statesman," no very devoted friend of ours, said it "was a failure to the point of being almost a fiasco...
...Nor have I had any communication with anyone at KJrcaMy en the subject of the earning etoeUens...
...Lloyd George was to set the Thames on fire, and the country with it...
...Two things are clear...
...He said it would ruin the credit of the country, which is founded upon the stability of the banks...
...mistaken his speech will add to the distrust In which he- la held, and there is no other fienre In th» t.ih—i Party who counts for anything so far as popular leadership goes...
...Due to the closeness of the general election, no by-elections will be held...
...Lloyd Oeorge that the past record of the Liberal Party entities it to popular support for this program...
...Pour more by-elections are to take place this week, and the Tories are quaking in anticipation...
...They are most promising political material...
...Down and down went we spirit oi uic crowd and next morning the drooping heads of his followers drooped still lower...
...It means that if you remove from a coalowner, cotton or steel magnate, the chance of making as much as hs luces, the coal, cotton and steel trades might, after a time, show signs of decay...
...The wish to make money and leave it to our children, he says, is the spur to almost all the higher grades of practical T7ork...
...Lloyd George to redeem his pre-war pledges in regard to great schemes of national reconstruction...
...from our ripe fields, repeated some of the things we have been saying about unemployment...
...Rowlands la the only Conservative among the 35 members of the West Rhondda Urban District Council...
...But the public memory is surely not so short that it needs to be reminded of the failure of Mr...
...The mam cause er social and economic decay, he says, is that it has become no longer worth while for anyone to do anything very well...
...It was a little rash...
...Churchill...
...the chief Uberal whip...
...There are a few nooks and corners of the country—like Cornwall—where they still have a hold, but in the majority of the industrial districts they will have difficulty in polling one-eighth of the votes cast...
...If it was...
...From the beginning to the end of the speech there was not a new suggestion or a new ideaThere is, indeed, "nothing original in it...
...M.P LONDON...
...for the Dumfermline District, for instance, won that seat from the Liberals to 1*32, and has held it in succesesive contests since, always having a straight fight with the Liberals...
...So, as tile dsra so, everything is cheering...
...One of its most essential attributes is omnipotence...
...His working clothes...
...There is not an item in it to which the next Labor Government to not committed...
...On the balance, I believe that if the Liberals do the same they will help us...
...Once more, the reaction was marked, and Mr...
...doss not entitle them to be trusted...
...He has not been too well in health...
...IN MY test letter to The New Leads I encouraged your readers to expect that we might win the whole lour of the bye-elections which were then being fought...
...Baldwin was anxious to have a Conservative working man elected to the position in view of the General Election...
...And if he knew that his money didn't save them from several years work he wouldn't bother to make any...
...Both Tories and Liberals are deeply dispirited...
...When he tosto at the men who would constitute the 9sctalist administration he cannot sec mm who have the experience and aptitude to deal with the problems which f see tot country...
...The revival of Liberalism, therefore, enters into the plan of Tory defence, and electors was vote Liberal win only serve the igndsle purpose of being a sheltering screen behind which the forces of Toryism may rally and recuperate for the next attack...
...I call upon the Government to put the "Blasphemy Act into operation, and direct it with full force against all people who criticise the banks and propose to limit their absolute power...
...In addition to that, we should have to have a permanent committee of expert psychologists who would make periodical examinations of the minds of all the V^fng business men to ascertain whether the degree of incentive was being kept up to the level...
...I watch their faces whilst arguments are being developed, Jokes cracked, pure eloquence poured out, conclusions driven home...
...Also, the country means to be serious in the coming election...
...Nor is this an isolated instance...
...They are not, he admits, very exalted ambitions...
...Another interesting case is that of the Pontypridd division of Glamorganshire, where Tories and Liberals take it in turn to oppose Mary Jones, the Labor MP...
...The morning after Manchester they were in consternation...
...It is stated that Mr...
...f have net bad any conversations them with regard to the cemtog etectien," he said...
...Although unemployed he has never drawn his dole, but, as he rather naively explains, he is employed as a political speaker...
...Yet a prospective Tory candidate is now in the field and the Liberals are without a candidate...
...When I read American and other foreign papers, I am surprised at the importance which they give to the Liberal Party...
...Bddiebury win likely go to the Liberals, while the Tories will probably retain Bath...
...The Labor Party is held in confidence and respect, and any raving propaganda against it is to create a reaction in its favor...
...to carry out any new program ef resssv structton...
...Lloyd George continues to be an attraction for meetings, but my reports tell me that the results, especially of recent ones, like his intervention at the Ashton bye-election, have been unfortunate rather than fortunate...
...I have had it mounted on red plush in a frame of sea-shells, and keep it in the corner of my room as an ikon...
...Of Mr...
...We have won all four...
...Alas, how woefully the realisation has disappointed the expectation...
...like to be reminded of these facts, which are particularly distasteful to the Liberal candidates in the by-elections now proceeding at Bath, North Lanark and the Holland Division, where all three parties are represented...
...The constructive ideas of the Labour Party, the architectural plan upon which it would build a juster society, and at the same time a more rational one, goes unchallenged by anyone who can criticise it with knowledge and object to it with, any realistic sense of the social problem and experience of today...
...Just as even a good Christian may injure himself against Acts of God, so he should be allowed to ensure his business against Acts of Banks...
...Between us and themselves there is another Party, and their tactics win be directed partly to strengthening it at our expense...
...No Tory has fought the seat since pre-war days...
...It will not be surprising if Labor takes two of the seats and the Liberals a third...
...The liberals received their first ray of hope in the poll, receiving an increase of 3,000 votes...
...don't safeguard enough and business men will not think it worth while trying...
...At the outset I wish solemnly to protest against British labor's criticism of the banks...
...Hoyd George make* on behalf of tot Liberal Party, and show that their rests...
...Only a materialistic body like the Socialist Party could dream of placing such mundane questions as the creature comforts of the workers before the holy deity of preserving the credit of the banks...
...If I am aot...
...Our aggregate vote was 54,901...
...Lloyd Oeorge and his colleagues can alter it...
...At Nelson and Colne, Arthur Greenwood, Labor MP., tells me...
...It is looking for argument and reason...
...None but the over-hopeful expected Labor to , win in Batt Toxeth...
...Neither his hand nor his personality has been much in evidence in this Parliament...
...Socialists and others who clamor for State control over credit, should have their lands forfeit and be made to walk through the streets in their shirts, holding candles...
...the Tory, 31.147: the Liberal...
...The crowds that go to stations are created by headquarters and newspapers, and are no indication of spontaneous feeling...
...4 Elections Going On In England Labour Hopes to Win Two of the Tory Seats—East Toxeth Disappointing fBr a New Leader Oorr»gpond«ntl ¥ ONDON,—The first of a series of five bye-elections to take place this week opened disastrously for the Tory party...
...It Is not denied that in the one instance Tories are retiring and }n the other instance Liberals are dropping out...
...a • ' The Prime Minister's references to Nationalisation in his Newcastle speech gave much satisfaction to his followers for a day or two—until the "facts" and figures Were examined...
...One is that the main reason why a fond parent leaves his sons money is to save them from the calamity of having to work...
...One suggestion is that legatees should not be allowed to receive their legacies until they had proved their ability to make good...
...Never since Disraeli stele the Whig's bathing clothes has there been such aa instance of political robbery as this "Liberal" program...
...Then they doubted, but expected to be reassured by what he was to say at Manchester...
...It has been delivered, and who is .a penny the worse or the batter...
...Ugsj Oeorge, "that has never undertakes a mission yet and did net carry it through/* I eould fill this page with a list of pros...
...We have never studied or practised the art of stage management...
...banks are not human, and we must not allow people to talk of them as such...
...Nothing must be done to impair that credit...
...In 1922 and 1924 it was a Tory who stood...
...At the request of Premier Stanley Baldwin...
...If there are any Liberals in the next Parliament we shall be glad to have their support in the Division Lobby to carrying eat the program...
...It was to put the Liberal Party in the running, not for a hundred members, but for power...
...One Is tempted to deal with the claim made by Mr...
...His specific errors had been pointed out .and specific questions had been put to him...
...Liberals had a straight fight with Labor last time...
...That gives ns a luajotlty of 5,000 over the other two parties combined...
...lees the Liberals have made and Wbkjfe have never been carried through...
...Lloyd George himself, we see very little...
...Death of Walsh and Varley, Labor M.Ps...
...Lloyd George Ridiculed 1 By Snowden in Reply To Liberal Keynote Talk "f* These are any Liberal* in Parliament We Shall Be Glad to Have Their Help- *f •vTTflKRE is nothing original in It," said Mr...
...program proposes to deal am ***diOoos largely created by past Tlhsul neglect...
...The totals of the votes polled by each of the parties in these four tuutesta are also significant...
...The trombones were blaring and the drums were beating...
...It ft) enough now to say "land values...
...1SJM...
...But I knew the strength of the two tides—one flowJng with as and the other flowing against the government...
...humanity would not be such an ass as to put up with it...
...The slums for Instance, ar* a* the creation of the past few year*, iw existed to the plenitude ef Liberal *•««, and the three mflSea ef atoms eVsesmm ef wham Mr...
...Par days bis coming speech bad been preceded to *™Wli j^wwW^ewv w»wr nagea of advertisement to the* Liberal Press, A program was to be announced which would stagger the nation by its boldness and originality, and which would strike dismay into the hearts oz the other political parties...
...And that would upset me so much I should have to go and lie down...
...Baldwin, a man of much finer qualities and temper of personality is unequal to his task, is a round peg in a square hole, and is out of harmony with bis fortune and his task...
...The Liberal candidates were to be given their marching orders and to be presented with banners and battle cries which would carry them, all to victory...
...The latter have to confess that they make no headway...
...There are three objections to this...
...Decadent Party "There 1s no party more capable," to says, "of dealing with the reforms wt propose than ours...
...iBy • New Leader Correspondent) LONDON.—The Labor party baa suffered the loss of two of its tried members this week in the death of Stephen Walsh, who was secretary of War In the Labor cabinet, and Frank Varley, miner, who represented the Mansfield division of Nottinghamshire...
...Lord Kyisant, and Lady Iveagb, MP., gracefully withdrew...
...This is an age of flippancy and irreverence...
...The explanation*' of the dncsdene* of the once powerful Liberal Party it tbt popular conviction that the Liberal Part...
...Lloyd George as its chairman to keep up the appearance of corporate unity...
...An interesting light has been thrown upon the mind of the country by two speeches delivered by Mr...
...I call upon all religiouslyminded people to protest against this sacrilege by falling an one knee whenever they see a banker walking down the street...
...joined with us in making some important practical proposals, added to his unredeemed pledges, and tried to make his friends believe that the third place in the ballot Is a victory...
...Under these circumstances...
...The British Tories New "Worfdngman" Chairman T ONDON.—Much is being made in the conservative press of England—and undoubtedly of the United States—o ftbe choice of a "wochingman" to head the Conservative party organization...
...We are the Party," said Mr...
...I know when I see it...
Vol. 8 • March 1929 • No. 10
