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Toffee Editor of "Tarian y Gweithiwr.' DEAR SIR,—IN lat weed's TARIAN there was a Lwghab\e and co'n¡c,.l and ehildish leaderette The writer of it opened with a glorious tr»hute to the sterling qualities of Mr Philip Snowden M.P., as a leader to whom the destines o the Labour Party could s-ife'y be entrusted. It stated that he vvas a forcible writer, chairman of important societies, and of good religious faith, an acceptable preacher, etc. All of this is quite true. It further stated that the Prime Minister, Mr Asquith, Mr Herbert Gladstone, Lloyd George, and others, received Labour Members with open arms. This is not true. They have stated that they open their arms for Labour men, yet what have they done ? Where rich Liberals have opposed work. ing men, who were supported by the • LRU. Trades Unions, Trades Councils, etc.. they have appeared upon the rich man's platform and have attacked the Labour Party for opposing Liberals. C, Such is the friendship of the Liberal Party towatds Labour, 0 But the comical part of the arfcle is that which says that 'the Labour Party has excellent men to represent it, men who are too wise and above calling them Socialists. Socialism as such did not have place to breathe in the last election.' Where has your leader writer reen ? does he really know anything about the elected Labour Leaders and what they stand for ? What did the person whom the writer praised so strongly, viz., Mr Philip Snowden stand for? Why, M r Philip Snowden is chairman of the Independent Labour Party, and one of the finest orators of the Socialist Movement in the country. He has been a few times to Aberdare to speak on behalf of the noble eause of Socialism. Throughout his election campaign he stated ever and over again that he stood for Labour and Socialism. And yet your writer says that the e ected Labour Members are too wise to declare themselves Socialists. Sir, there is a strong body of men returned to the House of Commons v ho glory in the fact that they are Socialiscs, and who declare th t they receive their inspiration from Socialism. Does your leader writer know that there are now in the House of Commons 19 men who are members of the I.L.P. ? Doesfhe know that of 10 official l.L.P. candidates 7 were elected ? Does he know that in 8 out of the 10 contests the Socialist vote inci eased from 32,756 votes at previous contests to 54,761 votes ? Does he know that in 4 constituencies where l.L.P. candidates had had a pre- vious straight fight with the Tories that the Liberals brought out men to oppose the Labour Party and that the votes polled were as follows :—l.L.P., 19,893; Tory, 18,443; Liberal, 17,989? Result, Tory retained two seats, Labour gained two seats, Liberal nil. Does he know that the l.L.P. candidates received altogether 256,404 votes ? And yet your leaderette states Socialism did not have any place to breathe. Surely your leader writer is absolutely ignorant of the growth of the Socialist sentiment. Besides there were many men advocating Socialism, who received thousands of votes, but who were not members of the I. L P. Again the article mentions that the general opinion of a Socialist is one who denies God, believes all persons will die like animals, scorns Christ's places of worship, and as a rule beats his wife. Surely this is childish. Such a notion is only heid by the most ignorant people in the country, as Socialist papers are sold by the thousands, hundreds of meet- ings are held every week throughout the land to advocate Socialism, while Socialist literature is distributed by the tons every week. The people who hold such &m antiqwated notion of a Socialist as stated, must indeed be ignorant, whea he has such fine opportunities of knowiiag the real meaning of Socialism. Surely the thousands of men who voted for Saowden did not believe such traph. I should strongly advise your leader writer to take the I Labour Leader so as r, to know the real strength of the Labotr and Socialist movement and- what it aisus at.-—I remain, yours sincerely, Aberarnan, W W. PRICE.

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