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THE BLACK SHIRT MENACE
TELEGRAPH.・ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13,
NOTES OF THE DAY
ORDEAL BY SENÁTE
Professor Tugwell has success- fully ridden out the storm and Under- has been accepted as Secretary of Agriculture. But he
1934.
SOCIALIST FORCES IN
BRITAIN
By R. A. SCOTT JAMES
The Very Idea!
ABOUT MADGE'S LEG
By George
"The Golden Candarla"..
(N
B. Yesterday found had anxious moments and there N RECENT by-elections in The IL. P. to-day is far wenker
311 the
Great Britain the Labour than it was a few years ago, and will be many observers
our readers held in United States who will associate Party has considerably increased lost a great part of its membership his denials of a radient political
Dr. its polla as compared with the 1931 when it decided to cut itself off breathless suspense while ometal Labour Party. Jeejeebhoy takes an eyeful creed with those of Pater. Tugwell'e views have been the general election; but there is as from the nubject of more speculation and yet no indication whatever that the About one-half of ita members of himself in his little pocket dlopute than those of any other tide has turned strongly against seceded, including ila most bril mirror. We asked then, Individual closely connected with the National Government. Aliant Intellectuals, and formed a
tho Braing the New Dent and
powerful factor which from the new body called the Suelalist what did Jeejeebhoy see in Trust. Crities denounce him as urat has favoured the National League, whose members are still the mirror?
revolution the master-mind of a
Government continues to handicap and others aco in him the prophet of
The mischier era. the ado about his personal view
to the point is that his value Administration must Butter, as an ulterior motive will always be sought for in any of his recom- mendations. It was destructive over-publicity that lost the advice of Professor Moley to Roosevelt.
a now
THE TEST.
course.
of
President
out in
were,
were
You must have guessed the the. Labour Party-dear of that within the circle of official Labour.
most conspicuous answer by now, so we will pass shadowy entity known as Social. The latter's ism. It is shadowy because it is lender is that most vocal of all on to the story. In reply to the so variously defined, and there British Labour politicians, Sirirate readers whose, letters ar- are as many kinds of Socialist Stafford Cripps, a member of the rived to-day we repeat that all polley as there are groups of So-fast Labour Cabinet; and is the characters in this soul- cialists. As expounded by some it right-hand man is Sir Charles absorbing serial are entirely means the class war; for others Trevelyan, son of the historian.fictitious. Nobody, could possi it necessitates a constitutional re- Sir Stafford has sprung into world-bly guess. who we mean and if volution; and for others it in-wide fame as "dictatorship Cripps,
Government,
This confusion of thought is the more intelligible when we realize that there are four political So- Great in cialist organizations. In
WOMEN IN THE CIVIL SERVICE
of
to
*
the
the
con-
"Meanwhile Reginald, clad i
a beautiful gown of diaphanou material, was strolling along th Praya whistling softly to the fish as they came to the surfac to take an occasional breath. Now and then he took a little make-up box from his intimate. pocket and had a peep at him- self"
(One reader wrote saying that he had never heard of a man with an intimate pocket, but you must remem Incidentally it will go strongly against ber that Jeejeebloy is still unmarried. our conscienco to marry him at all, especially to Madge who is essentially sman's woman. By this we mean that you couldn't hit her with a bacon rind and get away with it. But we must on with the story, ac grip your teeth and read below).
THIRD INSTALMENT.
awhile
to
dicates no more than a progress in view of his insistent statements they did they would not like to by slow stages toward the Socialist which have been interpreted to say 80.
To 'Millicient who wrote asking! ideal. In some of its aspects there mean that the next Socialist Govern There can be no quarrel with is nothing to terrify the bourgeols ment was prepared; in the inst re-us to make Madge lose a leg, we the verdict of the First Test, al- mind; in others it appears to mean sort, if realsted by a recalcitrant have to point out that we have the end of the existing form of House of Lords or a refractory already planned Madge's life with
set up a Labour two legs but we might find it: though it worked itself
were civilization. If there were reason- Opposition, to curious way, Australia
a ricksha. Perhaps superior in nearly every departable certainty as to what the dictatorship. The distinguishing opportune later to have Jecjecbhoy
triumph of the Socialists would feature in the policy of the league run over by ment, for although their most mean, there might be less appraia ita determination to implement readers would like to express the boosted batsmen did comparatively
hension as to what would be in- the whole policy of state Socialism, views on this subject; if 80. little, they were not. dragging volved in a defeat of the National including the nationalization of the should be gind if they would advied banks, by one swift legislative as whether an operation for behind them an unsupportable tail. The outstanding personalities
stroke. Its alm is to alter the appendicitis would give Madge who gloriously
whole economic system of Great some sex appeal or whether she Chipperfield,
Britain during the life of a single should develop a hump. Render justified his last-minute selection
l'arliament. by a brilliant 99 in the first innings
who are not up to date with pre vicus slabs of our serial can rend and superb work in the field, Mc-
The out-and-out declarations of here the last paragraph of yester Cabe, who rescued Australia both innings, O'Reilly and Grim-Britain, two within the fold of the the Socialist League have aroused day's which is good enough to b
enthusiasm rumong mett. Kenneth Farnes alone of the Labour Party, and two outside it much
younger and more ardent Socialials repeated anyway. England X1 brought solace to the The noisiest are not necessarily selectors. Hendren did well in the most influential. On the ex- throughout the country. They are the first innings and Sutcliffe treme Left is the Communist logical and consistent in their ar- sufficiently well in both to indicate Party, acknowledging allegiance guments, and fiery in their appeal. that he cannot be left out, but there unly to the Third International of Theirs is a programme which at- is a large question mark against Moscow. No need to state here tracts the leftward-moving minds nd those who believe hastening several others. Some mitigating their purpose and policy. They circumstances there
of are the same everywhere. They toward their objectives. Its men- A crumbling wicket with are non-national; they are uncom-hers are potent influences within But they are four hours and fifty minutes of
the Labour Party Itself. play and two spin bowlers of the promising; they are the disciplined the Labour Party.
rustruments of dogmatic Com- not The hint by Sir John Gilmour quality of O'Reilly and Grimmett, muniam at headquarters; they are Their organization is almost with that the Government is not dis-meant that ability to hold out was for revolution and the destruction out funds. They have no machin- posed to tolerate the methods of doubtful from the outset of the of the present regime and the pre-ery for running separate candid- innings. It would, however, have sent prevailing atate of mind by ates for Parliament. They have the Mosley Black Shirts much been unfortunate if Australia had any means whatsoever. In Brit- no representatives on the executive
22 well in their numbers are fow, and of the party machine. longer is satisfactory so far as been robbed by time of
they are not strong enough to win. it goes, but the situation which earned victory.
single seat in Parliament.
The oficial Labour Party, the has developed would appear to
Next to them, toward the Right, call for prompt and definite
though still far to the Left, in the central organization which is on The prolonged struggle netion. The fact is now well
British feminists to secure "equal Independent Labour Party. This the Right of the Socialist move-
headquarters and in the British established that
rights with men" has diminished in organization existed before the ment, controls the machinery at Labour Party itself. For more Fascists, when dealing with intensity as one position after an-
than a third of a century it has stituency, and holds the purse
trades unions, whose funds pro- Reginald paused political opponents, overstep the other has been surrendered
them. They have won the full been the nucleus of the Labour strings. Its strength rests on the peep at himself. necessities by taking it upon right to vote in parliamentary Socialist movement in the country;vide the sinews of war and whose watch the hamboos shoot and the themselves to usurp the func-elections, to sit in Parliament, to and many of the most conspicuous tions of the police. Such tactics plead at the bar, to serve on juries,Labour politicians, including Mr. powerful organizations are the sampons streaking easily before. cannot be tolerated. Like all and to enter the civil service Ramsay MacDonald himself, have mainstay of the British Labour the typhoon. It was an enter (excepting the defence services been among its members. But in movement. The trades unionists taining sepetuele but Jeejeebhoy their moderate-Socialist views. rickshas, chairs, Sanitary Depart- "fire-engine, ago it completely Thus supported, the official Labour ment vehicles, S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. political units, the Black-Shirts-and the diplomatic and consular recent years it has moved much as a body are tenacious of their shared it alone for apart from a must expect to encounter opposi-services), and they have acquired farther toward the Left, and about traditions and conservative in few trucks, trams, buses, cars.
equal rights in regard to divorce two years tion, the more so when they and the ownership of property.severed its once-treasured connce Party is opposed to dictatorships, coolies, fishers, godown-men, and a official Labour dislikes revolution, prefers the aphest of people, he stood alone present their case in such a man-But there is one disqualification tion with the
Now no person can be a member proach to Socialism by gradual upon the deserted Praya.
He knew that Madge would be ner as to invite retallation. Sir which they have hitherto laboured Party.
in vain to remove-women in all
democracy.
waiting for him and it was per- Oswald Mosley, in seeking to
1. L. P. Its ultimate political and
соулева streak of on marriage.
Such are the various Socialist haps make n case for his minions, hughes of the civil service are both of the Labour Party and the methods, and declares its faith in
required to resign This limitation is now likely to be economic objects are similar to pointed to the fact that the modified in view of a report issued those of the Communists. It be forces which are arrayed against feminine contrariness that made Black Shirts are not the only by a joint committee of official and leves in the possibility of sudden the National Government. It is him linger in the cool air.
revolution, and favours the method at present the moderate official or- people who appear in public in
ataff representatives set up
of attempting to sow the seeds of ranization which controls the uniform-he has even clted the consider the recommendations
revolutionary thought among the political opposition. There is no workers, and it would like to fear of the Communists; no fear Boy Scouts and the Salvation a Royal Commission.,
cstablish a united front with Con- of the Independent Labour Party: Army! But the point which he
munism. But it refuses to accept but since no one is quite certain that conveniently ignores is
orders from Moscow or from any how far the Socialist League may these are not political bodies,
Women in the higher branches outside organization, and it care-be able to assert its vigorous is- seeking to thrust their opinions on other people. Moreover, it of the servico complained that the fully refrains from advocating fluence within the Labour Party, rule constituted an interference violence or illegality. Its leader the shadow of a menacing uncer- is not so much a question of the on the part of the State with the is that able, popular, and much tainty darkens the reputation of use of a distinctive uniform by private lives of employees; that as
among those who fear revolution. the Mosleyites as the idea at the long as they remained efficient the espooted Member of Parliament, the political Labour movement
Inquire to back of its use. The Black employer had no right
whether they were married or Shirts are without question a
Bome years the semi-military organisation, and, single. For
with of their
organisations, what is more, most activities are modelled on that few remaining worlds to conquer, have concentrated their efforts on basis. Their methods are to- removing the ban on married wo- tally foreign to British political men. The decision arrived at is. tradition, and it is therefore a compromise. Under its terms hardly to be wondered at that a a married woman may be retained growing resentment against the or recruited if the authorities are movement should manifest it-satisfied that her employment is self. The mischief is that if advisable in the light of her special qualifications or of the special re- action is not soon taken, we may soon see rival bodies, working on quirements of the department in which she is, serving. Moreover similar lines, come into being.the regulations are to be framed The possibilities in such a situa- o that the privilege is to be a only tion are too serious to be lightly reality, and not necorded disposed of. The eventual up-under very exceptional conditions, shot might be armed clashes,
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NO
No doubt much will depend on to be kept in mind is that such the spirit in which hends of de- a cutastrophie state of affairs
partments interpret the rule; but; would be directly attributable the result will probably be that to the Mosley venture. The clever women who succeed in plain fact is that there is no entering the civil service will be room in England for such a able to feel that so long as they remain efficient madcap creation as the Black work hard and Shirt organisation or for the they will have no reason to fear Jinmissal. They come near to methods which it typifies.
obtaining the coveted equality Therefore, the sooner it is with men; and it will be observed brought under control and shorn that here, se in certain other re- of its worst features, the better spects, they will actually gain will it be for the country as a certain advantages not enjoyed by may still draw the whole. Far too much Intitude mon-for
marriage gratully, if they retire, has been already permitted; tho time for firm and definite action and, if they remain, will be entitled to two months' maternity leave on has arrived. It is to be hoped full pay. Thus all along the line that the Government will have in Great Britain the legal obstacles the courage to suppress the to women's equality of opportunity movement without further ado. are being removed..
Mr. James Maxton.
"Now, driver, don't take your eyes off little Mary Belle"
or
(To Be Continued.) (Why dons Jeefecbhoy linger in the cool air? Has he got the
don" and "Hongkong
if be will 20hal
Madge
HO
011
the
ef- ichen 100
fect do get them together? You will remember that we left Madge- apilling over the verandah but we intend to put a stop to that to-morrow. Have a little pat- ience folks, the plot thickens. Jeejeebhoy will definitely startic you on Thursday which Madge's washing day.)
18
LESSONS IN JOURNALISM. An editor is the laat word in newspaper work and for this rea- son can nover be accused of speak- ing out of turn. Regrettably enough, too, he is often the last straw.
Every reporter starts by being an editor until he is pulled up; then he starts becoming a reporter and generally remains becoming.
A man of firm decision, an editor must know when to say "When It is the lack of this decision that had ruined many a potential editor whilst still in the cup-or rather cub-stage.
t
It is considered ungentlemanly for the head of a newspaper to swear at his subordinaten, which explains why many of them dio at their desks from repression. The fact that most of them are bald saves them from tearing their hair but all conscientious editors chow their nails whilst receiving visitors, to show that they are busy but can still do two things at the same time.
Editors' words are final and often unprintable but they all at- tain the same high standard of wisdom na borne out by their; » leaders which sometimes read word for word the same. Still by cribbing his copy, the Editor breake a hard and fast rule for other members of the staff and this strikes a note of originality.