THE HONGKONG Telegraph, Tuesday, March 9, 1937.
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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, March 9, 1937,
CLOSING UP THE
LOOPHOLES
It is difficult to read Miss Pieton-Turbervill's minority re-
port on the mui-tani problem without feeling that the wider form of child protection which she suggests is much more likely the secure the abolition of evils inherent in the mui-tani system than the proposals for strengthening the existing law
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N the course of nearly thirty years' service in the Labour and Socialist Movement I have seen many break-
Aways. Some have been made by people of whom we were glad to be rid, such as MacDonald, Thomas and Mosley. Others have been made by men who have in due course seen the error of their ways and returned to the fold.
Every altempt has caused dis- time. unity and weakness for a Every one has failed to break the am unity of the Movement. profoundly sorry that members of the Socialist League, for whom I have the greatest respect and fection and in whose sincerity I complete confidence, should
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at inis critical time in the name of unity have taken a step which. 13 bound to cause disunion,
I think that they are making n great mistake and are doing grave) disservice to the cause of Socialism and Democracy.
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Party 16 Labour democratic. Its supremo authority is the Annual
Conference.
1 have at times disagreed with its decisions, just as I have differed sometimes from the decisions of the Parliamentary Party, but in both cases I am bound by the
As a demo decision so taken. whose
ernt I accept the will of the no
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BIOLOGISTS have shown that they
can produce alinust any type of animal to order. The scientist tokes
A Call for
REAL UNITY
by the Rt. Hon.
C. R. ATTLEE, M.P.
majority. There is a conscicuce clause of which I can avail myscif.
This acceptance of majority rule is the basis of democracy and of all effective collective action. I pre- sume that the Socialist League itself comes to its decisions by majority vote,
The Socialist League members, while professing to seek unity within the framework of the Labour Party start their campaign by deliberately disobeying a Con- ference decision. There is no doubt as to the decision against the policy of the United Front,
a lot about Its advocates talk the block vete, but not one of them would suggest that whatever was the method of ascertaining the will of the Party they could have got a majority.
It was, of course, open to them to continue to try to get the Party to accept it by persuading the membership, but instead they have chosen to act against its expressed will with the inevitable result." The National Executive was obliged to disamlate the League.
The question then arises as to what is meant by democracy.
The signatories to the unity agreement talk of unification and of mass action by the workers. This means, if it means anything, that the workers are to be actuated by a single will.
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Whose is this will and how is it uscertained? Are the be workers, like the delegates of the Socialist League, to be asked to accept or reject a policy pat before
Leader of the Opposition
them by certain in- dividuals or are they to frame their own programme and to decide their own policy by a vote? When it is de- cided, are all to be bound to accept the will of the majority?
This is really the issue which arises in all these cases of break-. away. The ILP. went out because it claimed the right to disregard the majority.
All these movements are funda- mentally undemocratic. They rest on the unsound basis that there are certain people who know the will of the workers better than they do themselves.
Wo in the Labour Movement be- Heve that the workers must make their own decisions, This is just the difference between the Social- ist and the Communist attitude.
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ET us see what is to be the policy of the United Front. talks of transforming the policy of the Labour Party and of prevent- ing breakaways. It sets out a list. of immediate abjectives.
There is no breakaway except that which la promoted by the advocates of a united front. The Labour Party Executive is at this moment engaged in framing-its- immediate objectives. The list on which the united front stands is taken from Party policy in the main with some striking omissions. There is no complaint formu- lated against the policy or actions of the Labour Party though there is a lot of vague innuendo and jargon about class co-operatior and defeatism.
There is one striking omission. Despite all the strong language about Fascism and the complaints made about the alleged attitude of the Labour Party by left wingers
Build A Race Of
Supermen?
ing to established laws, he produces offspring which have the characteris- tics he has chosen to give them. Our knowledge is still incomplete and,
there is no mention of the Spań- I struggle. There is no sugges← tion of a policy. The subject in not worthy of consideration.
We do not know what the signa- torics think of the attitude of the Front Populaire and the U.S.S.R. any more than we know what they think of that of the Labour Party.
This is perhaps due to the fact. that there is plainly a division of opinion on Foreign Policy and a painful Inek of clarity.
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O oppose Fasciam and to maintain Peace all three parties want n Pack . between Great Britain, France. the Soviet Union and all other States in which the working class have political freedom.
This is only another way of putting the Labour Party policy of collective security through the League of Nations. They recognise, as did M. Litvinay, the division between Fascist and Democratic countries, and that even capitalist democracies may be useful in withstanding aggression and de- fending the USSR.
It is not clear how this defence ls to be effected.
Presumably the parties to this Pact are to be strong enough to prevent attack or at least resist it Unless all the by force of arms.
bu left to nghting is to
the Socialist States, the other States will have to supply their quota, no doubt in accordance with their rc- sources and the. strength of the potential aggressor.
LOWEVER, – there is one. excoption. In the view
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of the LLP. and the Socialist League,, Britain's adher- ence must wait until there is a' Socialist Government, because the "National" Government can never be trusted'to usó Its arms on the side of the workers and for peace.
The Communist Party, on the other hand, while sharing the dis- trust of the others, claims the right to demand that the present Government should adopt such a pact. What its attitude on armaments would be If such a part were signed is left uncertain.
It is obvious that the signatories have not thought out any clear and intelligible policy on peace, and have nothing but words with which to face the Fascist menacé. They have nothing new to offer in exchange for Labour's collective peace policy, and Labour's attitude of willingness to provide adequate arms for collective security, and refusal to support armaments divorced from it.
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members of the Commission. What Miss Picton-Turbervill wants is not merely protection for the mul-tsai but for all young people under the age of twelve years, who have been transferred from the control of their parents, whether they are adopted daughters, wards, tem- porary wards, or servants. Mere registration of existing mui-tsai is not, in her opinion, sufficient; there are other categories of transferred · children status is that of mui-tsai, matter how they are described. FITTED WARDROBES. Mis Picton-Turbervill would 'COCKTAIL CABINETS, [extend the machinery of pro- BEDROOM SUITES.tection-notification of trans- fers and, where necessary, DINING ROOM, registration-to all these LIBRARY AND children. In view of the fact that the mui-tsai system is no. HALL FURNITURE.
longer recognised by law, she suggests the abolition of the existing mui-teni register, with a wild rabbit, breeds from it in his appiled to human beings so that possibly, faulty, but wonderful re the proviso that those whose laboratory, and in a few generations every man became, according to pre-sults have been obtained. What will
: be done in the far future can only be names appear thereon be classi- presents the farmer with a beautiful. sent standards, a superman, possess-
imagined. fied as adopted daughters. The amal, covered in thick, silly fur, ing all the most desirable physical
or with a pelt that is a perfect
fect imita- and mental characteristics? The de-
This breeding with a particular end proposals are not put forward on
tion or
ef sable
or ermine. He produces sire, to Improve the human race In in view savours of creation, but it is vague or nebulous. lines the hens that extend all their energy in
this way is at least as old as written actually nothing of the kind. The laying CEG
and he can decide whe whole machinery necessary is in ther the eggs will be large, medium,
records. Modern
tern novellats have toy- ed with it, seeing in the study of scientist can give offspring no charac dicated in the provisions of or small. He can give you pink mice, heredity the future hope of the
teristics which are not present in the Sir George Maxwell's suggested goldfish with grotesquely large eyes, human race. Why do we not start parent. He is a sorter and a mixer, cortuinly not erentor. He could not In fact an animal with almost any now to breed this race of super-men ordinance, which could well be
produce a race of supermen characteristic you care to neme. who will inherit the earth, many
possessed utilised as the basis of the new
of the quality of perfect love unless The value of the study of heredity centuries hence?
he could find a parent with this law. The whole difference be- in commerce is obvious. Could it be
It used be thought that a man quality. But the ordinary attributes tween
the majority and the
was a complete whole, fused in one, of the superman-cnormous strength,
ceert mental. so to speak, and that his various beauty, keen minority reports is that the
not be separated. mu
munity from disease,
attd so on are former would deal with the whole problem and a clear re qualities could subject piecemeal, within well- cognition of the realities of the Now we believe that a man is the to be found distributed through the Party is to pe an effective force.
sum of his qualities, perhaps wit
the
world. Undoubtedly we have in defined limits, whereas the question. Any fear that a sud- uddliign of an unknown factor, and humanity specimens of the qualities latter envisages a much wider den application of the reforms qualities should not be sorted out
that there is
is no reason why these we desire although It might be
necessary to draw on citizens approach to the whole of the suggested might meet with op- again. These qualities are redistri- many different nations to find them issues involved. One big ad- position is countered by the bouted in the passing on of inheritance all. vantage of Miss Picton-Turber- suggestion that there should be to children-na parent ever gives his vill's plan is that unregistered wide publicity and propaganda entire personality to any one child. The qualities are also redistributed mui-tsal, of whom there must before the new ordinance is put abnormally in certain circumstances be many thousands In Hong- into effect. If any reat impres such as dual-personality. kong and Malaya, would be sion is to be made on the abuses brought under official notice, of the Chinese system of domes. The Ideal Man and, if the law were strictly tic servitude, within a reason- enforced, there would be little able period of time, it is clear danger of the ovils of the mui- that the, end sought will not be taai system being perpetuated attained by tinkering with the under other names. There is issues involved. It is for this
reason that we nothing to which reasonable ex-
see in the ception can be taken in the pro- minority report a much more posals contained in the minority satisfactory method thun in the report, which is marked by a half measures proposed by the common-sense approach to the other two Commissioners,
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The real difficulty in breeding this race of super-men Is to 'final parents who ore, in the language of the poultry farmer of "pure strain." You could form your society for super- men enrol volunteers prepared to up sacrifice themselves for the sake of these qualities, analyse them neatly the human race, secure the services of the finest biologists in the world, on paper, and discard the imperfect, should we not reassemble them in an collect your funds but you could
strain. find parents of Ideal form. Theoretically it is passi- ble, and it has actually been done,
Suppor
you wish for instance, your super-man to have blue eyes, but only to a limited extent and only with the lower animals.< The breeder
You select your pareat with blue analyses and labels, the qualities of the animals from which he is going to breed. Then by selecting accord-
not
eyes-but under those blue eyes may be hidden brown eyes, equally pre-
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"HE ́ Labour Party has always been sumciently comprehensive to include within it various shades of opinion. It offers the true united front.
There is nothing to prevent any- one who accepts the principles of democracy from coming in and taking his share of the work. He can work to alter polley or to affect changes in the constitution, but he must loyally accept the decisions of Conference.
No other basla is possible if the
I hope that the members of the Socialist League will realise this. There is need for Socialist Unity and it can be had within the Labour Party, but it cannot be nchieved through domination by a minority.
I hope that there will be no personal recrimination. Accusa- tions of evil motives and disloyalty whether directed against those on the right or loft only do harm and prevent union.
I hope that all will rally to the one effective Socialist Force in this: country the Labour Party, and will not disrupt its unity in critical. days such as these.
-To-day's Thought REASON is empty, but it was
is inexhaustible..
---LAO-THE.