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:"Political Notes
Political Notes By F. W. Jowett, M.P. WILSON'S ORIGINAL PEACE TERMS. I Mr. Lloyd George's declaration to the effect that Germany can have peace on President Wil- son's terms, may mean much or it may mean verv little, for President Wilson has driven aeveral versions of his peace terms. On two dif- ferent occasions President Wilson has stated the conditions on which peace might be concluded, so for as he is concerned, under four heads. On February I I tli; this yej>r, he stated that the four principle* on which a. peace that would satisfy him could be based, were as follows First.—That each part of the final settle- mt-nt must be based upon the essential justice of that particular case and upon such adjust- ments as are most likely to bring a peace that will be permanent. Second.—That peoples and provinces are not to be bartered about from sovereignty to as if tllt-v were ehattkts an d ptwn. sovereignty as if they were chattels and pawns in a game, even the great game now for ever discredited of the balance of power; but that, Third.—Every territorial settlement in- volved in this war must be made in the inter- est and for the benefit of the populations concerned, and not fi., part of an.v mere ad- justment or comprom ise of claims amongst rival States. Fo-irtli.Tii,i,t all well-defined national as|»irations shall be accorded the utmost satis, faction that can be accorded them without in- troducing new or perpetuating old elements of discard and antagonism that- would li.- likely in time to break the peace of Europe and con- sequently of the world." HERTLING'S REPLY. To the first three of the aUne-n:enttoned car- dinal principles laid (lowit by President Wilson, Count Hertling, the German Chancellor, on be- half of Germany, gave unconditional assent. As to the fourth, he said, "X assent in principle, and I declare, therefore, with President Wilson, that a.general peace on such a basis is discuss- with the reservation that: these prin- ciple* must not be proposed by the Pre dent: of i-iiv l iuum! Unt- tLifc>y .utn>».«r .«-• recognised definitely by all States and all na- trions. ALLIED GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE. The answer of t/ie Allied Governments was sued a. month later and it was, in effect, a re- affirmation of the |x>licy of the knock-out-blow, -and mad e no reference whatever to President Wilson's pea^-e conditions or to the response of the Central Powers to President Wilson's de duration. WILSON'S LATEST PRONOUNCEMENT- On the occasion of the recent Washington (cele- hra.t-ion Pr{id"I,t \Vilson re-stated Ili,, cardinal principles, again in the fonn of four proposi- tions. It is probably this litel- on of Presi- dent Wilson's peace terms Mr. IJoyd George had in minel when he made the declaration that Germany could have peace at once on President Wilson's terms. President Wilson's first pro- position was on this occasion .stated in the fol- lowing terms — The .destruction of eveiy arbitrary Power anywhere that can separately, secretly, and of it*, single choice disturo the peace of the world, or, if it, cannot be presently destroyed, a lea.st its reduction to virtual impotence." AND POSSIBLE CONSTRUCTIONS. Two different' constructions may be placed on this new form which President Wilson han given to his first proposition. It may mean nothing more th1 aa affirmation that every previously arbitrary Power shall consent to give up its ,st--I;,trate right of choice in regard to making war to a league of nations. This is probably all that it docs mean, because otherwise it would rjuue inconsistent with President Wilson's pre- v ious declarations. On the other hand, it is open to another and quite opposite explanation, viz., the destruction of Germany as an arbitral1 v Power by the infliction of what Mr. Llonl George lias described (as the knock-out-blow. If this is the sense in which :\11,. LloHI George has construed President Wilson's latest pronounce- t tll(' (,On( t 't i <)DS on ment concerning the conditions on which peace may be conclu ded, then the world has gained nothing by Mr. Lloyd George's speech, for peace will Ix. long delayed if it has to wait, for the knock-out-blow. And it must have been in this sense that Mr. Lloyd George is now using Presi- dent Wilson because the secret treaties still re- main in force, and they cannot be carried into effect otherwise than by means of the knock-out- blow which, in all human possibility, will never be delivered. RUSSIA. I The news from Russia is contradictory on every important point, and it is impossible for, ns to judge, therefore, what is taking pll\(\( there. One thing, however, is clear, and that is the danger of the Allied Governments be- coming involved in a counter revolution in Rus- s ia. The assassination of Count MArbach, the ( ,ei-ni,-Ln Ani t ).?.st 4 ot- at German Amba-ssa-dor at Moscow, has every ap- pearance of the first ict of a counter revolution. Tlie object of the assasination appears to be to incite military operations by Germany against the Bolsheviks. Tiie expropriated landlords Russia do not care in the least .vhether German or Japanese soldiers intervene in Russia so long as the Bolsheviks are overthrown. Kerensky, in supporting intervention by the Allies, is dis- tinctly associating himself with forces that can only succeed by re-establishing autocratic rule. The Allied Governments will not assist any party in Russia which denies private property in land. It. therefore, follows, as a matter of course, that the Allied Governments cannot in- tervene on the side of Democracy, for if there is one thing certain as to the mind of the Iffis- sian peasantry, it is that they will not willingly restore the land to. the Russian aristocracy. < Whatever may be the opinion of the majority of f{ussian people with regard to the Bolshevik leaders; and there is much conflict in the evi- dence on this point; neither German nor Allied intervention can take place without provoking resentment on the part of the people or Russia against the Governments concerned. DANGER OF DESPOTISM. I Furthermore, it is also the fact that every local revolt against the Bolsheviks that has hitherto succeeded has led to the suppression of every vestige of civil liberty and the establish- me-nt of the most cruel form of despotism. In this connection the following passage from a re- sen t article by Mr. Arthur Ransome ,the special correspondent of the" Daily News," is worthy of serious attention. Speaking of the Czech re- volt, he says — Events in Samara after its seizure by the Czeclis should be instructive for those who bebeve that intervention and the overthrow of the Soviets will be received with gratitude by an oppressed population. The Cssechs them- selves refrained frqm repressive measures, but their presence allowed other parties to take revenge, which alone they were powerless to oh rain. Over a hundred Red Guards were shot and a.hout fifty civilian workmen. The Soviet leader Mere imprisoned under very bad con- ditions on a diet of bread and water. As soon ae. the local workpeople realised what was being done they ca ue to the 1 new Govern- ment with a demand for the immediate re- lease of the leaders and the cessation of t further arrests. COLONEL WEDGEWOOD'S EXPERIENCE. I Speaking of the Red Guard* reminds me of Colonel Wedgwood's experience of them as re- lated to me by him on his return from Russia, lie had travelled by train from lVtrograd across country, and the train was approaching Vladi- vostok. Many of the passengers with whom he travelled belonged to tile well-to-do classes, and not regarded with muoh favour by the sol- l/lwu. ■•.« £ 'J:, journey. Outside Vladivostoek, however, the passengers becarte positively alarmed. The train was stopped to allow a force of Red Guards to get on to it. According to Colonel Wedgwood's de- scription, there particular Red Guards appeared capable of anything. They looked rough, un- kempt, and ferocious. They carried bayonets that were either rusty or bloody, one or the -it-her, and Colonel Wedgwood, along with the rest of the passengers, prepared for the worst that might happen. What did happen was that the Red Guards insisted on all the passengers disclosing the contents of their trunks and bags. But they were in search of Vodka; th(it was all. Vodka, they said, was not allowed in Vladi- \ostock. Accordingly, the Red Guards searched the passengers' luggage for vodka—they poured all the vodka they found out of the carriage windows. The Red Guards having accomplished their object then retired. SIR WALTER RALEIGH. I Notwithstanding the fate of Dr. Lyttleton and one of two )t.ll(- i- men of like standing, who have been fiercely attacked because they dared to protest against the fomentery of hate in the world, Sir Walter Raliegh, Professor of English literature at Oxford, has taken the risk of fol- lowing their example. Speaking at Mill Hill the other day he ventured to give instances of chivalry on the part of Germans, and th»n went on to say tiii t, Germany takes no notice of our newspapers, having observed that they take no- tice only of atrocities, and write of them as if they were the rule and not the exception. I would like," he said. to staff our newspapers wih mounded soldiers and give the present staffs a iiofidav as stretcher-bearers. Is it to be be- t] t. our people can behave nobly only ou tilt, condition that they we made to believe we are righting ourang-outangs" WHAT OF NORTHCLIFFE'S WRATH? I ? 1 1, Mr waiter Kaleigi; had hettel" Jook out, for Alfred Hannsworth (Lord Northeliffo), the uncle < ve-heads of the press, will surely be after him. It will be represented that Sir Walter Raleigh excuses atrocities, and b unmoved to indigna- tion when hospital ships are torpedoed, although, lilie the rest of us, he would he willing to hang the individual responsible for such outrages. PRESS MISREPRESENTATIONS. I It is the wicked misrepresentation and sup- pression of facts with the object of promoting hatred, not only of wrong and the wrongdoer. hut of innocent and guilty alike, that men like Sir Walter Raleigh condemns. As, for instance, when on the request of the Pope that processions in German towns were allowed to take place un- molested by air-raid^ whilst on that day Paris was bombarded; the whole press of this country rt,f-ded the fact without mentioning that the Corpus Christie processions are held in Paris on a different day, on which no bombardment took Moreover, when this fact was stated in the German Reichstag, at least one British news- paper headed the paragraph containing the i-n- formation with the words Another German Lie. Most of the newspapers made no refer ence to the explanation. In reply to an en- quiry put to him on the point, one of the lead- ing Roman tlatholic members of the House of Commons, fiercely pro-war as he is, acknow- ledged to me that the outdoor processions in French towns were often held on Sundays, in- stead of on Thursdays as it the custom in Ger- man towns. SPIES: A DIFFERENCE. I Mr. Rot?rb B?tcht'OTd in his \wk1v arti(?< ;n a ,undav pape1., tiv his opinion on spies.I He saY8 that a spy is a sn?ak." But the offi- <'M,? hu?ctin of the National War ?avin? Com- (Continuod at foot of next, column).
Labour and Public Health.
Labour and Public Health. ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO REPORT. The Labour Party has appointed a special Advisory Committee" to consider," report, and advise upon the policy to be pursued in regard to public health, with special reference to the Insurance Act, the position of the medical pro- fession, and to the Ministry of Health, fecal" he.alth authorities, and public medical services The Committee is a fully representative one, friendly society and trade union interests being represented as well as the medical, legal, and actuarial professions.
How Will You Respond ?
How Will You Respond ? E50,000 FOR THE I.L.P. I APPEAL FOR FUNDS FOR "GREATEST I ELECTORAL FIGHT" IN HISTORY. Dear Sir or Madam, The New Parliamentary Register has been compiled. A General Flection is expected to take place before the end of this year. AH the political parties are selecting their candidates. It is time for the I.L.P. to get fully ready for the greatest electoral contest in Briitish history. There will be an addition of probably not less than ten million voters to the old Parliamemtary Register. Over one-third of these new voters will be women. The issues of the coming General Election will be of unparalleled importance. The future of Democracy and of Internationalism will be determined by the result of that election. The I.L. P. must take its part worthily in this great contest. We are expectiing to have from six to eighty I.L.P. candidates. For the cost of these elections the I.L.P. has accepted the re- sponsibility. "Tl Y FIGHTS. 1 1 he groat increase in the electorate, the high prices of printing, and of the other necessary expenses of an election contest will make these fights very costly. The I. L. P. has fought and won elections in the past far more cheaply than any other political organisation in the country. We get the enthusiastic support and voluntary help of our members and sympathisers. We cannot ilnder the new conditions expect to be able to fight our sixty to eighty contests at an average, of less than five or six hundred pounds. We had desired to keep back our ap- peal for an election fund lined later in the year, out the necessity of making that apipeal-at once has been forced upon us by certain reasons, namely, the itiiminence of a General Election and the necessity for raising money for the pur- pose of organising the consntuencies where con- tests are to take place. Our members will do their part. Indeed, they are doing that already. Branches have raised a thousand pou ncls this veaT for the Head Office Election Fund. In all those constituencies where I.L.P. candidates have be, ) definitely adopted local election funds are being raised, and our members, out of their limited means, are reo sponding magnificently for this purpose. The National Council always make it a con- dition before endorsing an I.L.P. candidate that the local I.L.P. must have raised in actual cash or by guarantees a sum of at least £150. This condition has been carried out in all cases where candidates have been endorsed. SYMPATHISERS' PART. I But the resources of the membership of our Party are not sufficient to meet the full cost of our sixty to eighty election contests. We shall have to rely, as we have done on previous occa- sions, in a large measure upon the support of sympathisers who are not members of the Party. We have m'veor before- appealed to these sym- pathisers with so much confidence as we do for the next General Election. It is a plain and unexa.ggern.ted statement of the fact when we say that the I.L.P. during the last four years has borne the brunt of the battle for Peace and Internationalism. The I.L.P. Mem bers of Parliament have waged an un- ceasing fight, against conscription, against the iattack s on industrial and civil liberty, and have persistently urged the policy of peac-o "oy diplo- matic effort. OUR PRESS. The National Labour Press, owned by the 111- dependent Labour Party, has been of invaluable service to every democratic movement during the war, and with considerable risk it has served the propaganda for peace and for civil liberty. It has been announced that there will probably be four hiindrefl fab-otir candidates at the next General Election. Apart from our own, these, with few exceptions, will be Trade Union can- didates. The I.L.P. wishes these candidates" suc- cess, and will do its utmost to secure their re- turn. But if the Labour Party in the new Par- liament is to fulfil the historic mission of La. hour it is vitally essential that there should be a strong body of International Socialists inside that Parliamentary Labour Party. We must see that our present group of I.L.P. Members of Parliament—Messrs. Anderson, Jowett, Mac- donald, Snowden, and Richardson—is strength- ened by the return of as many as possible of new candidates we are putting forward. To secure that result there must be efficient organisation in every constituency where an I.L.P. candidate* is coming forward. We have decided to make grants from our Central Fund for election organisers in each of these consti- tuencies. This will involve a, very large expen- diture. We need money at once. WTe want fifty thousand pounds as soon as possible for this organisation and for the ex- penses of the Election. We confidently appeal to our sympathisers to com > to our help at once. We believe that we shall not appeal in vain. The occasion calls for the utmost sacri- fice that everybody in sympathy can afford to make. Let the response be immediate and generous. It will be a. contribution to the greatest cause for which help and sacriifces were ever invited Contributions should he sent to Mr. T. D Benson, Treasurer, I.L.P. Office. 8 Jolin-,(-tn Coui-t, Fleet-street, E.Ci.4. Pmur Svohth'n, Chairman T. n. Benson, Treasurer.
IRaid at The Socialist Labour…
Raid at The Socialist Labour Press. I NATAIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE'S I STATEMENT. The Socialist Labour Pi ess, 50 Renfrew-street, Glasgow, was raided by the Police on Saturday, July 6th. and the machinery dismantled and the vital parte conveyed to the police-station on a dray. Some hundreds of pounds worth of print- ing paper, ink, and accessories were also con- fiaoatod and removed from the premises. This is the second raid within three weeks. In both raids a considerable number of unsold copies of pamphlets were seized (in one case over 10,000) and absolutely no reason given for the arbitrary acts. Tlie Socialise Labour Press, established nearly seventeen years ago by a tremendous self-sacri- fice on the part of men and women of the work- ing-class has not only built up a literature of its own, but has time and again heroically jeo- pardised it- own safety by fighting the battles of the organisations that have suffered persecu- tion at the instigation of an odious government. Our Ptess challenged the Government in the I case of Tom Mann, and the brothers Buck by re- printing verbatim the suppressed Orowsley leaf- let, Don't Shoot." We printed The Suffra- gette when no other press in the country would do so owing to governmental repression. We printed Jas. Con oily's paper, the Irish H Worker," and about the same time we issued two other condemned and suppressed organs of advanced thought—the H Vanguard," edited by John Maclean, and The Worker, the organ of the Clyde Workers' Committee. In every case our concern was not with the nature of the contents of these publications, but the fact of their unjust suppressions. Only recently, when the official organ of the militant B.S.P., The Ca! was threatened with annihilation, our press once more voluntarily undertook to con- tinue its publication. It mattered not to us that our own official publications, upon which the success of our Party propaganda depended, were thus brought into the danger one. No; our fight was the fight against tyranny. against whomsoever directed and for the freedom of honest thought and the liberty of the Press. In the short space of two hours the myrmidians of a gang of unscrupulous politicians, who auda- ciously rule this country without any mandate from its populate, undo the work of nearly twenty years. Not the slightest satisfaction has been offered to us, as yet, by any authoritative person as to the reason for this last raid. We are complete- ly in the dark, and can merely conjecture that our press is feared as the most potent weapon British Democracy has in its possession. Jas. Stewart, of Wallsend, has been arrested for is- suing an anti-militarist joiumal for school-chil- dren, which our press has printed unchallenged for over a year, but not one brief sentence has been vouchsafed tc us that the suppression of such was the object of the raid. Men and women enough has surely been written to con- vince you that this latest act of cowardly injus- tice has not been directed against one working- class organisation. It is a challenge to the whole of organise d Democracy. Our press is the people's press, always ready to uphold the rights and safeguard the liberties of the people. hence the intensity of the hatred engendered by its selfless activities. We ask you for your own sakes to retaliate by insisting that the Soc ialist Labour Press is unconditionally re-established. THE NATIONAL EXKRRNVK COMMITTEE, SOCIALIST LABOUR PARTY. I
BIRMINGHAM SOCIAL SCIENCE…
BIRMINGHAM SOCIAL SCIENCE CLASS I PROTEST. TO THB RDITOR. I Dear (;omrade ,-Th, following resolution was carried unanimously at a meeting of the Bir- mingham Social Science Class, held on July 8th after a discussion in which the Secretary and Vice President of the Birmingham Trades Coun- cil took part. With their consent, the matter will be brought np at a meeting of the Birming- ham Labour Party on Thursday next. Kindly insert the resolution and oblige: — In view of the fact that a.t noon on the 6th inst., the'. Socialist Labour Press, 150 Renfrew street, Giasgow, was raided by the police, the machinery dismantled, and aJ] stocks of paper, ink, etc., seized, this meeting of the Birming- ham Social Science CI ins desi res to express its indignant protest against this further despotic attack by the Government upon the freedom of the press, and calls upon the organised workers of this country to manifest their detestation of this latest development of British Prussianisn. by forwarding resolutions to the Government demanding the immediate2 restoration of the Socialist Labour Press." The N.E.C. of the S.L.P. is appealing for financial aid to enable it to repair the monetary loss the party press has sustained by the tyran- nous action of the authorities.—Yours truly. j?REn SYLVPSTEJT, I S^retary, Bimlingham .L.P. I
[ 'Enginemen's War Wage.-1
Enginemen's War Wage. -1 MR. HOPKINS REPORTS 100 PER CENT. I INCREASE. On Saturday a. special meeting wa.s held of the Ynvsvbwl branch of the CWliery Engine- the Col l ](-rv men's Association, and was addressed by Mr. W. Hopkins, the general secretary, who reported that the representatives of the National Council, with which the association was affiliated, had had an interview with Sir Guy Calthrop. the Coal \ont,rolI{' upor an application for an 111- crease in wages, and an eight hours' day for all men employed in the mechanical departments of mines. The Controller replied that the Govern- ment would increase the war wage from Is Sd to as. per day to men over 16 years of age. and from 9d. to Is. 6d. under that age, the same to commence on June 'iftth. Th:- deputation pressed that the war-wage be paid on all extra shifts worked, and the Controller promised to place the various questions be fore the Government and a further meeting was arranged for Wed nesday in London.
An Uncensored Pamphlet.
An Uncensored Pamphlet. FRIENDS' APPEAL DISMISSED. At the City Quarter Sessions, London, last week, an appeal was heard against the decision of Sir George Baddeley, the Guildhall magis- trate, who had passed sentence of six months' imprisonment on Harrison Barrow, chairman of the .Friends' Service Committee, and 'Arthur Watts, the assistant secretary, for publishing a pamphlet called "A Challenge to Militarism" without having obtained the permission of the Press Bureau. Edith Ma.ud Ellis, the secretary, was fined £100. Sir A. Bodkin, for the Crown, said that the main charge was that of having issued the pamphlet without submitting it to the Press Bureau. The pamphlet was one likely to be used a-s propaganda. in relation to the present war. When the police saw the defendants at the offices in Devonshire-street, Baxr-ow said that the Committee- generally were responsible for its production. Mr. Barrow complained that the Liberal Pub- lication Department, and the Labour Party, and Lord Grey had issued pamphlete without ob- taining the sanction of the Censor. The Society of Friends desired to obey the law, but the pre- sent was one of those timers when the deepest religious convictions compelled them to oppose it. Miss Ellis said the question touched one of the deepest principles of the Society of Friends —the incompatibility of the spirit of Christ's teaching with all warfare for wha-tever cause. In dismissing the appeal. Sir Alfred Newton said there had been a deplorable exhibition thalJ day—to find that while the country was in the throes of trouble there were men and women ready to disseminate such literature at large. One could hardly contain the indignation felt a.t suc h proceedings. The law had been deliber- ately. wilfully, and ruthlessly broken. Defen- dants had deliberately flaunted the authorities and glorified in it. There mnrt be a check put on such conduct, and the sentence would stand. Mr. Cecil Whiteley said tliat he was instructed by the Society of Friends to say that they did not wish to be considered as in any way agree- ing with what the defendants had done. Several persons in court shouted out, That is not so." Mr. Cecil Whiteley: T have been asked to make this "st,-i$merit in justice to the members of the Societ y who instruct, me. There are no more law-abiding subjects in the world," added counsel, and they had no part in this de- claration issued bv the defendants. The Chairman: We appreciate very much what you say.
Mr. Snowden's Satire.
Mr. Snowden's Satire. CAUSTIC QUERY ON WAR AIMS STATE-" MENT. In the Houses of Commons last Thursday Mr. David Mason (L—Coventry) asked what action his Majesty's Government intend to take in re- sponse to the speech and sta-tement of German war aims recently made by Heir von Kiihlman in the Reichstag, and whether the Government would state wherein these aims may be incom- patible with the views of the Allies and wherein there may be some measure of agivement. I-ord R. Cecil (Under Secretary for Foreign I Affairs) replied that h(? did not s<? that any 1H"tion could us?fuUy be taken with rpf?renop to a statement so Yatj. and inconclusive. (C?h?crs.) Our war aim were well known, and we waited in vain for a. clear and unambiguous de claration of those of our enemies. (CheerB.) [ Mr. Snowden (Irfib.—Blackburn) asked where we should find this clear statement of the Allies' aims. Lord R. (3ecil: I can give the lion, member no information on that subject he does not al- rcady possess. Later in the sitting Mr. Mason sought leave to move the adjournment of the House in order to discuss the question, but found only one sup- porter (Ifr. Mason himself), and he was there. fore unable to proceed with the matter.
American Socialist Mission.
American Socialist Mission. A mission representing the pro-war Socialists of America, is about to tour Great Britain and the Allied countries for the purpose of confer- ring with Socialist and Labour groups and of interpreting to them the strong convictions of the American working-class in favour of a. de- finite military victory over the Central Empires. In a statement the Mission savs:—"We know that the overwhelming majority of the Socialists and trade unionists of America are unreservedly in favour of the war aims propounded by Pre- sident Wilson. and are united in their belief that victory over the Central Empires is not only necessary from the point of view of Ameri- can democracy but is absolutely certain. Presi- dent Wilson's pledge has behind it the pledge of the entire nation, especially the organised working-class. We are calmly determined in America to defend the democracy we already possess from deadly assault."
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mittee appeared, the same week, with n.n inset on the fiwnt rage which displayed a picture of the Union and Hnes of alleged poetry en- titled "The Flag, recording what noble things men may and should do for the flag; and one of the lines read s as follows — The daring man can spy for it." But, of course, Rooei-r had in his mind German s pies, which ilia kes all the difference.