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GOVERNMENT PARTY'S LACK OF SOLIDARITY

apologise for it is the beginning of the end."

Labour's Difficulties

In the course of a long analysin of the Labour success at the elec- tion Mr. Shaw said the party was not, exuvily popular. It was the Jonly party that was not unpopular;

hence its curious success. People! voted for Labour "because the other chapa were so hopeless." This did not mean that the mass of the peo- ple had become Socialists. Many of the

moves towards Socialism

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forcing any bargain, such as a they would deluge the country in mortgage on the mines, In return blood rather than let the banks go, for public money. The capitallats | but nationalization of the banks had tasted blood. They now 88W could be popularized by encouragige that they could get State subaldies the enterprise of the small men in return for a little State regula- who could not get capital now. tion,

The export of capital must be pro- hibited. A Socialist Government would not allow a single pound to be invested abroad so long as there was a socially better use for it in this country.

Mr. Bernard Shaw entertained meat. They had quite a respectable would probably be carried by the delighted the Independent list of things done to put before Conservatives without intending it Labour party Summer School, at the people, but unfortunately no one that way: EXTRA RACE Digawell Park. Welwyn, recently. knew or cared about any of then. HE SIXTH TWEETING

One of the difficulties of the will

held with a long and vivacious discourse That showed the enormous impart Labour party was that it was not (weather permitting) at Happy on Labour politics. His title was ance to a party of window-dressing, solid-it

was partly trade union, VALLEY on MONDAY, 14th Oc- "Random rollections on the last At the next election the Labour partly Socfalist, and it contained Reply tober. 1929. commencing at 2.15 general election, but he wandered Government would be judged not by an erasing number of careerists.

over a very wide field of discussion. the really statesmanliks measures The trade union movement He spoke for an hour and three they had passed, but by quite un-saturated with capitalism, though it quarters for, reckoning answers to important thinga which had im- was the only possible means of ad- questions, for two hours) with unpressed the public imagination. The vance of the workers at present lagging speed and liveliness.

late Government by neglecting against capitalism. The weapon of Mr. Shaw, who was introduced by window-dressing managed to convey the trade unions had always been Soldiers and Sailors in uniform Mr. Campbell Stephen, M.P., as to the nation an impression of the strike, and without it they half price.

"Comrade Shaw," began by describ-childishness and ignorance which would be disarmed. But a really Members are advised that theying himself as "like Marx and broke it at the election.

Socialist Government would not must show their Badges to obtain More. a bourgeois Socialist." After their triumph over the permit a strike for

ສ moment. TO LET Kowloon, two very large admission to the Members' Enclo "Consequently I am quite at home Zinovieff Letter-"the mere factleness would-be the one thing ATTRACTIVELY FURNISHED RED-

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Each member has the right to ence I see before me," he went on. shows you what the British voter The trade union movement was Bathroom. Suitable for two or three introduce 2 non-members to the "There is not a single person in is like"-the Conservative Govern- apt to be nationullat, whereas bachelors. Bourd by arrangement. Members' Enclosure, tickets for this room who could possibly be ment were for the moment drunk Socialism was necessarily inter- Excellent cooking.

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Mr. Shaw instanced the threat to Protectionist, butu the Sociallat was each up to Saturday 12th October, "That is a very significant thing, cut off the water supply from Free-trader. He was eclectic.

because there is hardly any class Egypt after the murder of Sir Lee "The trade unionist is necessarily The charge for admission for which understands the working Stack, which, he said, left on the the ignorant party. Most trade Ladies to the Members' Enelosure class less than our class does. public mind the impression that unionists have joined the uplens will be $2.

was told by my father when I was "these people are babies," and the for definite self-protection. Each member

They can obtain upon a small boy that I must not speak "gros burglary of the Russian Em- have never studied society at largement would have to proceed more application to the Secretary to or play with the sons of retail basay." They would

not have The Socialist thinks of the whole Badges for admission of 2 Ladies tradesmen. Wholesalers I was al thought of going to the French community. He is scientific. It is free of charge.

lowed to speak to. I received na Embassy and breaking open Bookmakers, Tic Tac Men. &c. instructions about working people. safe, yet what France had done to Mr. MacDonald does not behave as the no use getting into a state because will unt, be permitted to operate because it never entered into my us would have justified, if not bur-it he was at the head of a Socialist within the precincts of the Hong father's head that I could dream of glary, yet a strong remonstrance at Government. Kong Jockey Club during the Race speaking to people of that kind. I lenat. Having borrowed

He is in a far more Meeling.

con difficult position. Some of the peo- claim to he descended from the siderable sum of money from us and ple in the Government are trade Thane of Fife Macduff, the others for carrying on the war they unionists by tradition, but the gentleman who killed Macbeth. deliberately. repadiated.80 per cent. Socialists are holding, their own in "I am." he went on, "almost an of their debt. "It is called repudia-the leadership simply because they historic Socialist. I came into the tion when the Russians do that, but are scientific. Socialist movement in

But they have to the proper when French do it they call it consider the influence and bourgeois manner through the read stabilisation."

power ing of Karl Mars. You may call me a Marxian Socialist to that extent."

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Those Bourgeois Communists The late Government owed its fall Revolution and Responsibility to the fact that it left the impres-. With this introduction of him sion that it was childish and in- self Mr. Shaw gave BOITIC re-competent. To these examples Mr. miniscences. "I have seen the Shaw added that action of the now was not, as in the nineteenth effect upon revolutionary Sociallats | Government in preventing

the century, competitive capitaliani, but

Up Against "Clissoldism" What Socialists had to confront

SOME TIME

against Clissoldiam"-referring to "You are," said Mr. Shaw, "up

Mr. Wells' ideas (he having des- paired of getting Socialism through Governments) capitalists to carry on industry for about forcing the

the benefit of the people instead of the Government taking over the industries. Any Labour Govern-

or less in that way, but Socialists could not be satisfied with a posi- tion in which opportuniat Govern, ments could always be bought off by the proprietary classes. Social- ists must have a goal, or they would always be bought off by something short of Socialism. The goal must be equal distribution. A Socialist

to "Clissold" "industry. Government could do a good deal Working hours could easily be reduced to four a day, and that would solve unemployment. Prices could be re- gulated, rent, interest, and profits

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Mr. Shaw. advised the Labour party to work out a new. Parlia- mentary technique, and to abandon the old political habit of lecturing the other parties in E state of moral indignation. "We must give up making attacks on the leaders of the Labour party. Mr. Mac- Donald's place is open to anyone to take, but you must not abuse him. If he does not say the right thing you must say it yourselves. As a theatrical producer I never inter- fere with an actor unless I know exactly what ought to be done and can tell him exactly what to do.

"I hope the Labour Government will attend to its window-dressing, remember the case of the late Government, and pay attention to the things which strike the public The "Clissolding of Industry Imagination. People are looking was a step towards Socialism, but eagerly to the Labour party to do. it was impossible to get on without something-if possible something nationalization. Coal must be na sensational,--for some change at tionalized, and banking also, for to least. They party must not try to nationalize banking was to nation- give the impression that it le the nlize capital. The financiers now safe constitutional party which can ruled the roost in industry, and be relied upon to do nothing."

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of being for the first time placed broadcasting of his own speech at subsidised capitalism. Mr. Baldwin on a public committee with half a his, seventieth birthday dinner. was such a baby that he gave the crown of public money to spend. I Mr. Shaw next turned to a brisk conlowners a subsidy without en have seen people, of that kind attack on the Communist party; crumple up in the most extra-"the ultra-Conservative party" he ordinary manner and become people called it.. That party represented whom it would be flattering to bourgeois Socialfam at its most call Conservative. I remember one bourgeois, for the bourgeois alwayz Socialist leader now dead who had picked up Ideas from reading books bech an out-and-out Marxist-who-usually books out of date. really kept the Red Flag flying to The Communist party was full a very advanced age. He was get- of the old insurrectionary literature ting on for 80 when the Russian of 1848.. The class-war business Communist Government made the was extraordinarily misleading. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. He in- The Idea that the workers, being stantly become a furious anti- many, should rise and destroy the Russian and denounced Lenin and exploitens, who were few, ignored Trotsky in terms which would make the actual facts of society as it was, Mr. Churchill blush.

for (as Mr. Shaw showed at length) "I have remained a fairly strong a large part of labour is "parasitic Socialist and I am 73. You have upon the big incomes." "They don't not the slightest guarantee that 1 see that what they have to fight is, may not become a rabid Conserva- the parasitiam of perhaps more tive when I am 75. I remember a than half of the working class." Scot, compared to whom Mr. Max- The confrontation of working ton is one of the mildest Fabians. class with the proprietary class When he was a young man he was was impossible, and the result of considered so intransigent that It attempting to act upon such à con- | was thought impossible, that heception of society would be utter could ever get into Parliament. He disaster. The working class was was a sincere and convinced enemy not revolutionary; it was the dia- of the existing state of society. His contented idealistic middle class had been name was Ramsay MacDonald. He which was and always felt what many of us felt when we revolutionary. "The innocenes of were young, that we were in a great Karl Marx is still all over tho movement of the people, that we had Communist party, and it is in com- the working classes with us, and plate conflict with the comnion that finally that would carry our sense of the people. It has also Socialist principles to triumph. I foolishly taken Russian money, not think he дом feel like other having the sense to know that an ploneers whom the mass of the English body must not be in the people do not understand; they have pay of a foreign State, whether not got his opinions; he is up Socialist or otherwise, Consequent- against a machine of most tremenly they forfelled their deposita.” dous force and he has to carry on without a moment's hesitation or delay. He wondering. I dare say, what instalments of Socialism it will be possible to carry out.

The Fault of the Liberals "The extinction of the Liberals," Mr. Shaw proceeded, "la more ap- parent than real. We must admit the Liberals came off very unfairly "In course of, time Mr. Maxton when you compare their representa will probably arrive at that position. tion with the votes. To some extent He will be Prime Minister, and then they were victims of our electoral he will not feel that he has a big system. Nevertheless the Liberals movement at his back, but that he were not very inspiring, because la in a very foolish and ignorant they were made up half of Con- world and will have a very hard servatives and half of Elberals who struggle to get that ignorant world, were only half-convinced Socialiste. which politically does not under "There is only one rule that must Sunrise and Sunset in Hong stand anything, to move, an inch be followed in political window- Kong for October (Standard time of forward. There is general ignor-dressing.. Whether you are Liberal, the 120th Meridian, East of Green-ance and political' Imbecility. You Conservative, or Socialist you must wich), are as follow:-

can only get the mass of people to go the whole hog. Reluctant Con- do things when they don't underservatives and Socialists have no chance, The Liberals are in a state

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