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" Be True to Winstone." I…
Be True to Winstone." MR. J. H. THOMAS' MESSAGE TO THE WORKERS. A STRONG UNFETTERED LABOUR "A STRONC AND UNFETTERED LABOUR PARTY." Treliarris Boys' School was filled to overflow on Saturday night when Mr. J. H. Thomas, M. P.. visited the constituency in support of the candidature of Mr. Winstone, a large crowd of people failing to obtain admittance. In spite of misrepresentation and abuse," Mr. Thomas told his audience, Mr. Winstone has stood loyal and faithful to his class, and whenever the interests of the workers are in- volved Winstone never forgets his obligation and duty towards them. (Applause.) If Winstone is entitled to your confidence as a leader, as act- ing president of the South Wales Miners' Feder- ation. he is at least entitled to your preference in his return to Parliament. (Applause.) Win- stone has been true to you. Be true to Win- stone and do your duty." (Cheers.) 1 DIVINE RIGHT OF WORKERS. Mr. Thomas said that the right to Labour re- presentation was to him a divine right. Brains were hot the gift of any particular class or creed, hut shared hy all the race from the hum- blest to the highest, to he utilised for the benefit not of a section but of the community. And it was because he believed in that divine right that he askc(L the workers to be true to themselves and their principles. There never was in the history of this country a time so difficult and so dangerous as the times ahead. Any public man knowing anything of the situation must tremble at the responsibility to be taken, and in these troublesome and dangerous times personal and sectional interests must be subordinated in order that the country might be saved. Men and women had given unstintingly of their blood and the country of its treasure, and to these people the nation owed a huge debt. Fully 800,000 of the bravest and best lives had been, sacrificed in the war, and our casualties were in the region of four to four and a quarter mil- lions. Eevery widow, orphan and mother must be a nationa l charge. No money would recom- pense them fully for their loss. MONUMENT OF PEACE. Th. lasting tribute to the gallant men who had made the great sacrifice should be not A monument of stone or gold, but the monument of permanent peace. That could only be done by dealing with the root causes of war. When we read with feelings of emotion of Antwerp falling, how many of us know that the guns de- fending Antwerp were not capable of meeting the guns attacking it? And that Krnpps made the guns used against Antwerp and the Krupps made the guns defending it/1 When we read with horror of the gallant sacrifices of our mer- chant-seamen of the torpedoing of ships, how many knew that thousands of these Seamen wére hurled to eternity by what is known as the Whitehead torpedo, an English patent financed bv English Capitalists and prepared for sale to the highest bidder? The Labour party was standing for no private trading in armaments., That was what neither of the other two political parties had yet declared. The Labour Party was definitely committed that whenever peace was made and whatever Government was returned it shall never again he within the power of any Government or statesmen to commit a nation to war at the back of the representatives of the people. It war there must be, it must be the chosen representatives of the people who would make it and no secret treaties were to exist in future. A LESSON ON EXPLOITATION. Whenever peace was made we, the common people, must be round the table as plenipoten- tiaries with the same powers and authority as everyone else. it was said that that set up a sectional or class claim, but his answers to that charge w ere: the Prime Minister had accepted the principle; that unless that were done we would be the only people not represented, be- cause every class but the working-class would be represented. We were told that one of the re- sults of the war must be the stopping of dump- ing sweated goods in this country, and he gen- erally agreed the only point, of disagreement was the method. The Coalition tariff-reform method was to put on a tax to enable the Eng- lish manufacturer to fleece the consumer. An illustration of this was prodded during the war when the perfect system had been in operation. There had been no foreign competition, no for- eign goods, and it had been seen how automa- tically prices had gone up while simultaneously the dividends of the various capitalist concerns had also gone up. We wanted this peace to in- clude not merely the old formalities of diplomacy settled by statesmen and territorial adjustment, but recognition of human beings, and in the treaty a guarantee of a universal eight-hours' day, and a minimum wage, and then we would stop the foreign manufacturer sweating his peo- ple and stop the "English manufacturer from ex- ploiting us at the expense of other sweated people. NO REDUCTION IN PRICES. Those individuals who told us there is likely to be a reduction in the cost of living shortly knew nothing of the situation. As Chairman of the Government's Reconstruction Committee he stated definitely there was no hope of an imme- diate reduction. There was a world shortage of materials and foodstuffs, and in addition we had to proceed at once to feed the Germans. It was silly to talk clap-trap about boycotting the Ger- mans and starving them. The Allies bought food-stuffs upon an international basis, and in consequence, if they did not feed Germany, the Central Powers could enter the world's market as competitors offering bigger prices than the Allies, and the real effoct would be the auto- matic rise in prices and in the cost of living. LABOUR AND NATIONAL DEBT. I The Labour Party did not subscri be to a policy of the repudiation of th<? iiati(t] debt. That would be neither honourable nor business- like, but would be fatal to the best interests of the- country.. The debt had to be paid. We (Continued at foot of next column).
I .To You Mr. Liberal.
I To You Mr. Liberal. A LETTER ON YOUR PRINCIPLES AND THEIR DESERTIONS. I YOUR NEW TORY BED-MATE ON CON- VERSION. •• Lord North committed an error which has more than once in British his- tory been fatal to great Parliamen- tary leaders. He had imagined that as soon as he chose to coalesce "with those to whom he had recently been opposed all his followers would follow his example. He soon found that it was easier to inflame animosities than to ap- pease them."—(From Macauley's Hostory," Their Mephistoplielian claim for the souls as well as the Indies of the people's representatives is the most cynical attempt to muzzle indepen- dence of opinion -and stifle freedom of debate since the days of pocket boroughs. The scheme is audaciously clever. It is framed on Prussian military lines. The unsuspecting con- stituencies are to be carried by a coup d'etat, engineered by the Whips and blessed by Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Bonar Law.—(" Ardros- san and Saltooats Herald." November 29th, 1918.") Fellow Citizens, The conditions of the war armistice. or truce, are of such a nature that a continuation of the war is impossible on the part of the Central Em- pires, so that for all practical purposes we may consider the war at an end. The problems be- fore the country for solution now are the Peace Settlement and the work of Reconstruction. These are the issues you are called upon to de- cide personally by your vote on the 14th of this month. There is urgent need oil your part, I respectfully submit, to reason out those issues on the ground work of definite principles. They cannot, and ought not, to be dismissed by the cheap expedient of a combination of opposite political forces such as the prosecution of the I war. upon which there was very geueral agree-1 ment. allowed of under Mr. Lloyd George, He said of the Tory Party in lOO: To take an Election now and to get a verdict before clis- covery was made upon censored news, suppressed dispatches and unpaid bills is the deepest con-j deniuation upon their own proceedings. Yet to-dav Mr." George has considered it quite pro- per to rush an election under circumstances which will prevent an overwhelming proportion of our soldiers, according to Mr. Asquith, from recording their votes or knowing anything of the circumstances of the fight in their respec- tive constituencies. He appeals to you for a vote of confidence in the Coalition to carry out the Peace Settlement and the work of Recon- struct ion. asks you to sink all your political principles and unite with the Tory Party in the work of the future, and backs this up by deal- ing out Coalition certificates of approval to Tory candidates in constituencies where Liberals have the courage to stand untrammelled by Tory compacts. In a word, he is the modern proto- type of his old political enemy, Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, and stands for the disruption of the Liberal Party. You will allow me to say that the advanced section of the Labour and Socialist Party, to which I belong, long ago prophesied the amalgamation of the Liberal and the Tory Party, as represented in Westminster, in one Capitalistic Party, and I am delighted to see the union take place, but I realise in this Borough of ours there must be a very consider- able element of men and women who have al- ways been of a progressive type, but with poli- tical Liberal traditions behind them, upheld by such men as Henry Richards, they have sincere- ly felt their progressive outlook was well re- flected by a support of the Liberal Party and a rooted antagonism to Toryism. To that section of Liberals I especially indite this letter, and if I can prove they have come to the parting of the ways with their one-time leaders, I would ask them to drop the idea that Liberal is synonymous with Labour, and raise the cry that the Coalition is a surrender to Toryism, and means Co-Illusion. THE SACRIFICED PRINCIPLES. -? ? -? In Air. Lloyd George s letter to Mr. Bonar Law, dated November 2nd and published Nov- ember 10th, you have the basis of agreement re- vealed, and the consideration given by Mr. Lloyd George for that compact is the surrender of three principles, hitherto dear to all Liberals. Firstly, Free Trade is to be substituted by a policy of Protection for key industries and
The Historic Rink.
The Historic Rink. CROWDED MASS MEETINGS FOR WINSTONE. I ENTHUSIASM THAT SWEPT THE AUDIENCES. The Rink Mertbyr-the largest hall in the district—has barely sufficed to contain the La- bour candidates' meetings there on Tuesday and Wednesday, and the enthusiasm was bigger even than the audiences. The Rev. Morgan Jones of Hope—whose re- ception was magnificent—was the first speaker on Tuesday, declared that though he did not blame Lloyd George for his change of opinion he did blame him for not confessing it. It was not quite fair to his old friends, friends who had helped him all his life, to keep them in the dark in this manner. He had known Lloyd George for more than 30 years, had followed his career with great interest, and lie could not see where Mr. George had been inconsistent all through—even now He could not see that he had taken any plunge into a deep mysterious abyss. Such a man was very wilful when going straight, but he was very dangerous when he was going wrong—" and I am convinced lie is going wrong now." (Cheers.) THE WAR MAKERS. Captain Bennett the Labour Candidate for Stourbridge) declared that few men could have tempted him from his own fight in the Wiltshire villages—but one of those few was Jimmy Win- stone. (Cheers.) He told his audience how, when sitting as a Radical, he had been drawn more and more towards that great and good man, Keir Hardie." and had found himself oftener and ofte Ilr in Hardie's lobby than in that of his own party. Fdgar Jones in his election address spoke of the great and glorious victory of the war, but the speaker had seen too much of war to think much of the glory of it. (Cheers.) When Lloyd George, with a wave of his hand, said we won the war" he told him that politicians did not win wars—they caused them. (Cheers.) If the politicians had done their work half .so well as the soldiers the war would have been over two years ago. (Ap- plause). Dan Hennessey, who represented the Irish- men, caused a nave of indignation to Sou- through the audience on Tuesday, as he recount- ed the present day horrors that Nationalists were suffering for no other reason than their faith. In particular the revolting story of the Belfast Prison Horrors," which we hope to publish next week. Mr. Winstone opened with a review of the in- dustrial fight for an eight-hours' day for miners and colliery workers, and remarked that lie stood also for an eight-hours working day for steel workers. The tide of Labour (he proceeded) was rising on all sides, and there was no power under Heaven long able to resist its force. The workers' movement did not conclude with the minimum wage, and the eight-hours' shift; but they were out absolutely for the great-principle that the wealth produced by labour should be the property of the producers of wealth. In 1914, 12 per cent, of the population of this coun- try had no less than 88 per,cent, of the wealth created whilst 88 per cent received only 12 per cent of it. The Coalition Government—and he presumed the Coalition candidate—went to the House of Commons for the purpose of maintain- ing this inequality of distribution of wealth. He (Mr. Winstone) would go with the set purpose of opposing this system, and would not rest until the workers received a sufficiency of wealth to place them in a sound economic position. (Ap- plause.) He was fighting for a Parliamentary seat so as to ensure that laws were placed upon the Statute Book that would give justice and fair-play to the toiling masses. Lord Northcliffe declared that the Coalition represented the Junker class of Great Britain and he (Mr. Win stone) suggested that his opponent could only go to the House of Commons to represent the Jun- ker class. Let us have a look at them. Carson, Cur/zon. Milner qnd Bonar Law, and that great democrat, Balfour! These were the people who were going to bring salvation to Britain. Thev were the representatives of coal, cotton and steel, and of the land and the tin plates. Thev could never carry out the reforms required. Here with a marionette Parliament, would be found Lloyd George in the foreground, these gentlemen in the background and behind the landed, the coal. the iron and steel, and the rail- way interests. It was time for the workers to realise the exact position. To good Liberals or good Conservatives he declared, did he but hold their principles he would show his resentment at the Coalition dodge with all his power. (Ap- plause.) Was it not time we arose in all our strength a.nd demanded that this tiling should stop { Were we to become slaves to the ruling- class and allow that class accustomed to govern to do the governing for all time:" No! Labour stood absolutely anJ entirely for freedom and justice. He was an internationalist, and he said to this Junker class, this Coalition Government Hands off Russia! (Applause.) Poor, bleeding Russia, the nation that saved Britain in the earlier stages of the war. The working classes were sacrificed by the million by Czardora, ac- tually sent empty-handed to face the German guns, except for the stones they picked up on the roadway. Now Britain was at war with presumably Russia. Let us remember why. There was pre- sumably some truth, that there was some dis- order in Russia. But let them keep their hands off Russia and allow Russia to work out its own salvation. They were in Russia because of its richness in minerals, and the brightest and noblest of Britain's boys had to go there and sacrifice their lives so that this Junker class could have an opportunity to invest capital there. (Applause.) He sincerely hope dthat the workers with af their might would withstand the crowd of inter- national capitalists and say to them that their day of ruling and governing was gone, and that the common people must come to their heritage of internationalism. (A report of Wednesday's meeting is held for next week.—Ed.)
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I " Distress Signals."
I Distress Signals." I SICNS OF LABOUR'S PROCRESS IN BED- WELLTY. Mr. Charles Edwards, the Labour candidate for Bedwellty, at an enthusiastic meeting at Aberbargoed on Monday asked could the Gov- ernment be trusted to nationalize the land? They were handing back the railways (wlrict Bonar Law admitted had paid the Government) and the nationally-built ships, dockyards, etc. to private individuals and companies. Mr. Chiozza Money had left the Government on that very account. And they were abolishing the excess-profits tax, instead of graduating the in- come tax more steeply, and raising the exemp- tion limit for it. It was the Labour Party that demanded the repeal of the Munitions Act. of conscription, of D.O. R.A., and of the system of legislation-by-orders-in-eouncil under it. Asked about demanding the title-deeds of landowners, and about the taxation of land- values, Mr. Fdwards said both were included in the nationalisation of the land, and with refer- ence to the House of Lords, declare dthat if we had one, it ought to be an elected one. Mr. Jas Keating, novelist, stated that Irish men supported Labour as the one party faith- ful to Ireland. Liberals and Tories had both de- ceived them, and now they had a mongrel combination, and Mr. Lloyd George taking in the Tory washing and hanging it on the Liberal i ti g it on the Liberal clothes-line. They were told thev should have Home Rule when the Lord-Lieut considered thev were fit for it: but lie was a soldier with machine-guns. Who ought to decide, he or the people? (Applause.) Mr. Harris (organiser) said that distress sig- nals were sent from the opposition alre-iidt the Mrs. Lloyd George wouldn't be coming toor constituency. The unthinking were appealed to by the Coalition candidate. Captaill Williams having "done his bit," but others had done then- bit, notably Ted Gill, candidate for Frome and yet were opposed by the Coalition-and so were many other such for refusing to become automata.
I The Electric Theatre cll.
I The Electric Theatre cll. V irgi nin Pearson plays the role of a beautiful and wilful girl in All for a Husband," a pic- ture rich in humour and eramniecl with the un- expected, which tops Monday's bill at the Mer- thyr Electric Theatre, and her acting is delight- fully piquant. Alice Howell, the quaintest of the film comediennes, gives of her best in a farce, H What Happened to Father," and in ad- dition will be projected an exceptionally fine- series of motion-picture tales. From Thursday onwards will be featured in the programme "i Rich Man s Plaything," with Valeska Gurott in the lead. It is a story of a beautiful girl and a man who doubts her power to resist the in- fluence of his wealth. He tries her. She wins. Charlie Chaplin is back again in one of his greatest productions, Behind the Scenes," and an interesting announcement is made by tht- management of the Electric Theatre that they have secure a big drama in which Mr. Chaplin's beautiful wife, known to the film world as Mil- dred Harris, is featured. The play is one of the best of the modern morality dramas and is labelled The Price of a Good Time."
Labour at The Peace Table.
Labour at The Peace Table. OR "LITTLE CONFIDENCE IN THE SETTINR., UP OF ENDURING PEACE." I TRADE UNION CONCRESS PARLIAMENT- ARY COMMITTEE MANIFESTO. An election manifesto issued by the Trade- Unions Congress Parliamentary Committee de- clares the interests of organised labour to be so vitally involved in a satisfactory and speedv adjustment of the new social relationships that it is absolutely necessary that direct Labour re- presentatives shall be returned to the House of Commons in sufficient number to ensure that those interests are adequately safeguarded. V\ hen it is remembered," proceeds the manifesto, With what strenuous and unspar- ing devotion organised labour buckled to the task of seeing the war through, no one can deny its claim to have a full and just share of repre- sentation in the new Parliament. Unless La, hour has direct representation at the Peace table Labour can have but little confidence in the setting up of an enduring peace. If the workers are not represented in the House of Commons after the general election it is in the highest degree improbable that Labour will be given direct representation at the P(?."? Con- ference. Statesmen accept the League of Na- tions iii principle but the project may easily be endangered if Labour is not adequately repre- etid.ttigered i. f Laboui- is ri?ot. adeqti,,I tely repre- .scnted in Parliament." ?
I iTheatre Royal
I Theatre Royal The competition of free entertainment that election meetings offer has not effected the merry click of the admission box machines at the Theatre Royal this week, and I am (rlad for our nation would have to be aesthetically dead before it could resist the charm of a production with the intrinsic worth of "Peg o' Mv Heart played by a company with the solid artistic- merit of the clever little crowd who are doing it here this week. And, mind you, "Peg" makes big calls on any eompanv. Mr. Richard Gust a nee makes a line Jej-i-v withihe pro- per manly spirit, the exacting part of "Alaric" is delightfully done by Mr. Stanley Killby, a perfect Peg" has been secured in Miss Nancy Mortimer, who has played over a thousand times in the part. For next week, Robert Courtneidge's produc- tion "The Man from Toronto" will compete successfully with the Coalitionists for support at all events, and Labour will turn up volun- tarily resigning rhetorical treats and political education on facts. The play is good, and the company is good enough to play it successfully. J hat's all you need to know. PLAYGOER. Printed and Published by the National Labour Press, Ltd., at the Labour Pioneer Press,- Williams' Square, Merthyr Tydfil.
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" Be True to Winstone." I…
had had a irit of revolution abroad. People were talking glibly of a revolution. He believed it would be fatal, as it would be mad, to speak of a bloody revolution in this country. For people who had freedom of political rights, who could mould their own government and their own policy it would be nothing but madness to throw away the political weapon to take up the cudgels of a bloody revolution. But facts had to he faced. The danger was there. And he said with all his responsibility that in his judgment the one antidote, the one safeguard and the one bulwark against that danger was to have in the House of Commons a free, strong and unfettered Labour Party which would act as a watchdog— (the rest of Mr. Thomas' sentence was lost in a crash of applause.) That was why some of them had been so keen and anxious not to be parties to the Coalition. PEOPLE'S GOVERNMENT COMING. The Labour Party were not going back to Par- liament to be anti-Government or pro-Govern- ment but pro-Labour, prepared to stir up every measure in the interest of the working-class. (Applause.) He did not think a Labour major- ity would be returned to Parliament this elec- tion, but he was certain that before many years —probably at the next general election-the La- bour Party would be called upon to discharge the functions of a Government. He did not want the Party to take power or authority on a subterfuge or under any misapprehension, but with a policy based upon clear, clean and definite principles. In fact, it must be a policy that would last. One could not live to-day and for- get to-morrow. Four years of war had demon- strated to the working-class as never before that they had not been true to themselves. It was not a bloody revolution that was required, but a revolution of thought. The one war was finish- ed the war against poverty, misery and suffer- ing was only commencing. Imperial Preference, as we must face these questions with new eyes, without regard to pre- war views or to pre-war speeches." It is at the same time explained that this policy does not include a tax on food, although how you are going to prevent it does not appear very clear, especially as that question has been largely settled by the Corn Production Bill." In refer- ence to this matter Mr. Philip Snowden says: "To suggest that this policy does not involve the taxation of food Is a dishonest declaration which cannot deceive any person of intelligence. The policy of subsidising the landlord by arti- ficially maintaining the price of food by State subsidies embodied in the Corn Production Act is to be continued. This involves a duty upon food far heavier than anything which Mr. Cham- berlain ever contemplated." Secondly, the Home Rule Act of 1914 is Oil the Statute Book, but will be kept suspended, as there will be no Home Rule for a United Ireland now. The surrender to the Unionists lies in the fact that Ulster has to be excluded and in any event the present condition of Ireland makes Home Rule impossible. Finally, Welsh Disestablishment is to be kept hung up. as "the long continuance of the war has created financial problems which must be taken into account"—"cannot make any definite promises, but do not believe it will be found impossible to arrive at a solution of those financial difficulties." As part of a letter to the Tory Party this means a capitulation to the Tories on Disesta blishment. In those three questions you have the basis of the work of the Liberal Party for the last generation, you have the essence of the fight with Mr. Chamberlain and the Liberal Party, and until this election you have not seen a. Liberal candidates' election address without the incorporation of the three points. What conclusion can you come to but that Mr. Lloyd George is travelling the same road as his great antagonist. Mr. Joseph Cham- berlain travelled? THE TORY CLOAT. I The Tory Party make no secret of his con ver- sion. Listen to them:— I say frankly that I should have had no faith in the possibility of such an arrangement, and I never would have been willing to make it, if I had not thought that in essence the aims of my right hon. friend (the Prime Minister) were not very much the same as those of our party. I have been in pretty close touch with him for two years. He is not the man I thought he was three years ago." —Mr. Bonar Law at the Cen- tral Hall. Westminster, November 16tli. Mr. Lloyd George's patriotism and good sense had shown him that he had been wrong. and that the Conservative policy was right."— Maj or Pretyman-N ewman, at Finchley. He was glad to see they had converted their great opponent (Mr. Lloyd George) from Free Trade." —Captain Rupert Guinness at Southend. On the other hand, Mr. Lloyd George declared at Newcastle on Sunday last that he has "had two years' test of the conversion of the Torv Party." ABHORRENT. I J think you will agree with me that the correct mllne for this stunt is Crowd Illusion," and to all earnest Liberals who do not consider poli- tics a game it must be abhorrent. In Merthyr you have a chance to show your abhorrence for all such trickery. You have on the one hand Sir Edgar Jones specially guaranteed with Coali- tion corticate to follow Mr. Lloyd George and his Tory associates. In his election address he has carefully refrained from mentioning Protec- tion, Home Rule, or Welsh Disestablishment. He has no scheme of Reconstruction to offer, only the Prime Minister is determined to see that rapidly on a bold scale the conditions of life shall be improved," and Sir Edgar is de- termined to support him blindly. Vote for me and a blank cheque for Mr. Lloyd George is the sum and substance of his cry. He treats of Demobilisation in a generally vague manner but the important point, as to whether demobilised is to mean dis- charged is not elucidated and, of course, jus he stands for the dictatorship of Mr. Lloyd George, he won't be able to tell us, and as Mr. Lloyd George has made no pronouncement on the ques- tion of an abandonment of compulsory military service immediately on demobilisation, we have to search elsewhere amongst War Ministers, and we find that Mr. Winston Churchill, when forced at Dundee to answer a direct question, declined to say that compulsory military service would be given up. THE OTHER SIDE. I On the other hand we have Mr. James Win- stone, President of the South Wales Miners' Federation an official candidate of the Labour Party pledged to carry out the constructive policy and programme of the Labour Party to secure for the producers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equit- able distribution thereof that may be possible, upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of production and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry or service." He stands for Home Rule for a United Ire- land, Church Disestablishment and Free Trade. He knows that the hampering influence to Bri- tish industry is not free imports but our system of private ownership of land, our archaic system of royalties and private ownership of means of transit which according to Sir Leo Chiozza i Money means that a farmer can send 100 tons II of potatoes from Dundee to Liverpool £5 t cheaper by sending them via New York, that is, by sending them from Dundee to New York and from New York to Liverpool. As the Labour Party representative he is pledged to State Railways, Canals, and means of Transport. He belongs to the only Party that is explicitly com- mitted to an abandonment of compulsory mili- tary service immediately on demobilisation. In asking you to seriously consider the matter and follow the advice of the great Radical jour- nal, The Nation," and rally to Labour, I would remind you that, ip resigning the office of Par- liamentary Secretary to the Shipping Controller Sir Leo Chiozza Money declared in the House of Commons his inability to support the Coali- tion in a policy of mere social reform at a time when, in his opinion, a programme of State ownership of great national undertakings is es- sential if grave industrial troubles are to be averted. Which shall it be? Co-Illusion or Labour. I 1. can safely leave the matter in your hands. 'Yours respectfully, I SOIIN BAITR. I