DEMOCRATIC CONTROL OF
SOCIETY.
THE LABOUR PARTY'S PROGRAMME
A NEW SOCIAL ORDER"
A comprehensive report on reconstruc tion, prepared by a sub-committee of the executive of the Lebour Party, was issued, recently in the form of a leaflet entitled "Labour and the New Socist Order, It will be presented to the conference of the party at Nottingham, not for adop tion, but in order that it may be speci fically referred to the constituent organi satione for discussion and eventual sub- mission to a party conference to be arranged for next June, or to a special conference, should a General Election Tender it necessary.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MARCH 11TH, 1918
RUSSIAN TERMS TO ENEMY
POWERS.
THE FIFTEEN DEMANDS,
NEVER AGAIN THE GERMANS AND THE METAL MARKET
FOOD PRICES IN PEACE
AND WAR
TOWN AND COUNTRY CHANGES
The increase in the general level of [BY AN ENGLIBMAN. It now appears that the conditions
retail food prices in Great Britain since laid down by the Russian delegates at
Before the war, as we all know nay, Brest-Litovsk were deliberately "falsi.
the war began is now (says The Times) fied by the Austro-Germans in the Pare-Germanism had us in a ret. The
about 07 per cent, a reduction of E par account of the proceedings which they simple process of peaceful penetration cent. since September 1st having been enused to be transmitted ora Berlin and Amsterdam The Russian condi seemed to bave made active hostilities brought about as the result of recent food
unnecessary.
tions comprised fifteen points, not ex
control orders. The following table as was stated in the Brest-Litovsk
The Germans busied themselves in giving a percentage comparison of the message eirculated by Wolff's Bureau við." Amsterdam”” on December 27th, trade, not as merchant ventures but qe level of prices for the chief articles of The full text of the demands, as printed in the Vienna papers, is now conquerors. Their commerce was tinged food on October 1st in relation to the given below. The Russian require always with political Intrigue. They normal prices of July, 1914, is published ments thus falsified by the Austro looked upon the Stock Exchanges of in the Labour Garette, issued by the Germans were far more sweeping, and Europe as so many fields where battles Ministry of Labour - -... precise than the six-clause summary wired from Amsterdam, and included should be won. Thousands of German Boef, British many points not even mentioned in clerks filled our offices, whose function it that document. The Russian Maxi-
was to serve the Fatherland Arst and malists proposed 1.-Evacuation of all Russian territory themselves afterwards. accupied by Germany, and autonomy for We have been fighting Germany for vinces
Article.
Labour Party is that what has to be Poland, Lithuania, and Lettish prothree years, and we are not out of the Beef, British
We need to beware of patchwork," The view of the says the report. reconstructed after the war is not this nor that Government Department, nor this nor that piver of social machinery; but, so far as Britain is concerned, society itself. To-day so man dares to say that The war. Anything is impracticable.
has scared the old political parties out of their doginn has taught every statceman and every Government official. to his enduring surprise, how very much
more can be done along the lines we have laid
down than he had ever before thought possible. What we now promulgato as our policy, whether for opposition or for office, is not merely
this or that specific but a deliberately thought-out, etic and
comprehensive plan any Ministry, whether or
the
which
2.–Autonomy for Turkish Armenia, 2Settlement of the question of Alsace-Lorraine, by a plebiscite with guarantee of perfect freedom of vote,
4.-Restoration of Belgium, and an indemnity for damages, provided by an international financial fund,
not yet. In Russia and in Italy we may watch the fatal effects of the entangle- ment. The German Grms, which for years have worked openly for their national ascendancy are still us industrious as ever underground. That we should escape from the meshes woven by the cucity is essential for our safety, and at
Riba Thin flank Beef, chilled or fro
zen
Ribs
Thin flank Mutton, British
Legs Breast Mutton, frozen
Leg
(streaky):
pedantic Fre Traders to oppose Ita Sugar (granulated
Butter
Percentage faccans from July 2,1013, to Uctelor 3, 1017.720
Larza Towa (popula Towns twin over and
(50,000);
Vitagen
Per
Small United
King
Per Per
GRAND HOTEL,
SEASON
1918
GRAND ANNEX, GRAND STRAND.
TSINGTAU
IDEAL SEA-BATHING '
1.87
cent: cent cent
82
84
106:
120
116
118
158
136
147
·80°
204
193
183
167
1737
103
110
133
158
54
32
35
SHOULD
84
130
78
མྦྷ ཎྜ་སྦྲུཨྰཿཀྰ ཝིདྷ ཊཎྜ ཎྜཎྜཎྜབྷཱཧིབྷཝ་ྗཝ ཏྟམིངྒཛིནྡངྒཱ
78
99
EVERY
Commencing
MAY 15th.
T. NAGAO, General Manager.
[1082
OFFICE
IN THE COLONY
INSTAL O-CEDAR MOPS FOR ALL DUSTING OPERATIONS.
every attempt which we make to free our 3. Restoration of Serbia and Mon-selves we are denounced by the patient tenegro, with indemnity for damages out friends of German commerce and Free of a similar international fund; Serbia, Tradeorked moreover, to have access to the Adriatic
The Non-Ferrous Metals Bill, for Fish Bosnia and Herzegovina to have com instance, was received in the House of Flour plote autonomy."
Commons as might have been expected. Bread Other contested, territory in the joined with the Tea Balkans to enjoy temporary autonomny
pussage. And yet the case, for it is so until a plebiscite is taken:
strong that argument should have scenied superfluous. The one comment which might have been permissible is that it should have been passed three years ago, Before Germany drew the sword we were dependent upon her for our supply of spelter, lead, copper, aluminium, and tin We could not arm ourselves without her aid. A powerful group of German com: panics, whose ramifications it was not easy to trace, controlled the metal market. of the world. They captured the lead 10 Restoration of Persia and Grece in neutral countries they restricted the articles are weighted in accordance with FROM WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13TH, TO WEDNESDAY, 20TH,
output of spelter in England itself, even 11-Neutralisation of all maritime though England was at war. And there straite leading to inland seas, including
to grapple with the problem, will be driven to undertake. If we in Britain
Roumania to recover all her terri are, to escape -from
rom the decay of civiliza
tory
within her previous frontiers, after tion itself, we must ensure that what is promising to grant autonomy to the presently to be built up is a new social
Dobrudja, and to give effect to Article order. We do not pretend that it is Three of the Berlin: Convention concern. possible to build society anew in a searing equality of rights of Jews.
' reconstruction: two of feverish What the Labour Party intends to satisfy itself about is that each brick that it helps to lay shall go to creet the structure that it intends, sad no other.
.or
FOUR PILLARS OF THE HOUSE, The four pillars of the house that we propose to erect, resting upon the com mon foundation of the democratic con
and
8-Autonomy for the regions of Trent and Trieste inhabited by an Italian population, until a plébiscite is taken.
9Germany to receive back her colonies,
FREE TRADE FLIST,
Fresh Salt Cheese Margarine Eggs (fresh)
Potatoes
All above Articles
Weighted Percent-
98
·60.
160
40.
age Increase) 102 $3 07 increase in the above table the several In arriving at the general percentage the proportionate expenditure on them in pre-war expenditure of working-clas
FIGURES FROM OTHER LANDS.
MR. J. MOURNES, EXPERT DEMONSTRATOR
OF O-CEDAR SPECIALITIES,
IS NOW IN HONGKONG, AND WILL GIVE DAILY
DEMONSTRATIONS IN OUR STORE
Inclusive
EVERY MORNING From 10 TO 1230.
EVERY AFTERNOON „
3.39 1
5.30
Polish
trol of society in all its activities, may made for be termed:
ut commercial navigation; the cancelling to get all the meetals in or upon the earth the economies resulting from changes in (1) The universal enforcement of the so to enjoy national minim
beginning. the sole privilege of making families in which the total incoine omery ships; and the torpedoing of com
of the war, capecially in those () The democratic control of in-
mercial ships on the high seas to be for- dustry
not been increased by advances in ratos The revolution in national finance: bidden by international agreements. It was the obvious duty of our Govern of wages, greater regularity of employ
12-All belligerents to renounce warment to deflect this aim, and it proposes ment, increased output, or the working (d) The surplus wealth for the com- indemnities under any form or disguise to deflect it by means of a Bill which will of overtime. mon good."
whatsoever, and all contributions exacted forbid anyone, for the space of five years
WITHOUT INCURRING ANY OBLIGATION WE INVITE YOU TO CALE sine the beginning of the war to be after the war, to trade in non-ferrous metals without a licence. The proposal refunded
The following figures from other land: AND SEE ME MOURNES DEMONSTRATE HOW YOUR OFFICE CLEANING 13AII belligerents to renounce is defiance of the gospel of Free Trade, may be given for the purpose of compan definitely any commercial boycott after and the hot gospellers rise in their wrath on to a
CAN BE A PERFECTLY the lessons taught by the war. The Ger
DUSTLESS OPERATION. mum (which will need revision, according the peace conditions to be settled because their commercial expansion had
agreements.
mans were able to challenge the world to the level of prica) ought to be the very lowest statutory base line for the at a peace congress composed of delegates marched hand-in-hand with their militar least skilled adult workere, men or wo chosen by national representative bodies, expansion. And they were able to expand mon, in any occupation, in all parts of and the conditions to be stipulated by commercially because England, the ple the kingdom.
the respective Parliament. Diplomatists victim of Fres Trade provided them to hind themselves to sign no secret with an easy open market for their treaties which are to be declared by their very nature null and void.
As regards the first of these the Labour Party intends to see that the Trado Boards Act is made to apply to all in- dustrial employments in which any con siderable number of those employed ob-
tain less than 308 per week This in the war or institution of special Customs In plain forgetfulness they refuse to Jear RIsThe level of retail food prices in
To prepare for the possibility of any unemployment, either during demobilisa tion or in the first years of peace, the Government should make preparations #dor putting instantly in hand, directly er through the local authorities, such urgently-needed public works as
(a) The rehousing of the population, the extent, possibly, of a million new ottages and an outlay of 300 millions surling
The immediate making good of the shortage of schools, training colleges, technical colleges, etc, and the engage ment of the necessary additional teaching, elerial, and administrative staffs.
(e) New roads... (4) Light railways.
e) The unification and reorganisation
of the milway and canal system.
Aforrestion.
() The reclamation of land.
The development and better equip ment of our ports and harbours.
(1) The opening up of necess to land by co-operative small holdings and in other practitable ways.
NATIONAL OWNERSHIP.
Is-Gradual disarmament on land and sea, and the establishment of a militan to replace standing armies.
dumped goods
Had it not been for English compliance, the war could not have beeen made at all. But the Free Trader cares for no argument. He regards the word of Cobden as inviolate and inviolable. He would rather see his
1914
10-CEDAR MOPS
Small Triangle
Aprif (the latest available figures) was 47 per cent above that of Jaly, HOLLAND The increase in the cost of food between 1914 and 1917 for a rural working-class family of 10 is 107 per cent, and for a family of six, 1164 02. Bottles Pollsh 60c. per cent DENMARK.The average increase in prices of necessaries in July, 1917, as com-
pared with prices in July, 1014, was 152 per cent (bread, 231 per cent. butter, milis, beef und mutton, 150; SWADEN-The cost of maintaining the
bacon and pork, 146).
country invaded and in ashes than give up one article of his dangerous doctrine the whole kingdom, payable by rich and For him Free Trade is a natural force, poor ulike, as unalterable as the ld like gravitation, which must be accepted postage stamp. It is further asserted without question and without crificiam. that health insurance will never be put If it leads to ruin, well then, ruin let it on a proper footing, nor the friendly be. We shall fall into the pit, without societies secure a clear field, until the any harm done to a sacred principle nation expropriates the profit making So think and say the Tree Traders industrial insurance companies. The atsumption by a State Department of They are indifferent to the lack of the utter (489);; life assurance is urged.
many neccesary commodities of which
standard pre-war budget of a typical household in food, tuel, and light represents en
en increase of 74.9 per cont. in comparison with July, 1914. VIENNA The general level of
prices About 212 per cent above that record- ed for July, 1814, the heaviest in creeans being in lard (637 per cent.)
(500),
bacan
their moral lay has deprived us. GADA The cost of fo000), and
The party sees the key to temperance They look upon the dificulties in which reform in taking the manufacture and Free Trade has involved us with a callous retail of alcoholic drink out of the bands eve. And rather than renounce an inde- of those who find proat in promoting the feasible doctrine they would leave the utmost possible consumption. Localities Germans unchecked after the war in the should have conferred upon them control of the metal market. They refuse facilities
to think of the jury we should inflict
measured by ___the_weekly expenditure of a family, showed an increase of 30.6 per cent. us compared with July, 1014. AUSTRALIA. The average retail price of
food in the 30 chief towns shows an increase of 28.3 per cent, as compared with July, 1914.
(a) To prohibit the sale of liquor; upon ourselves if we again strengthened (b) To reduce the number of licences the arms of those who are fighting and to regulate the conditions under today. The mictal industry is a ke he clings to Cobden's creed with an which they may be held and
industry, and no foreign nation should earnest submissivences, though he should know well that every one of Cobden's predictions failed him. All the world Britain, and nobody followed it. Eug land was to be the universal factory, and the other countries would be content with the growing of grain. And Germany and America, arose at once as the com
To relieve any pressure of an over stocked labour marked, the opportunity should be taken if unemployment should
(c) If a locality decide that licenons be able to say how much or how little threaten, to become widespread me za
Imediately to raise the
the school are to be granted, to determine whether spelter and tin we may use. The risk we leaving age to le
of coated. Private or run 1 Brato follow the example of Grent Greatly to increase the number any form of public control run in war If the non-ferrous metals scholarships and bursaries for secondary special capital levy suggested to are essential for the making of gans and muy off a very substantial part of the munitions, they are essential also for Bubstantially to sorten the hours National Debt-chargeable like the death peaceful industries, and yo, angel again labour of all young persont, even to duties on all property, but (in order to be dependent for them upon our enemies greater exte
extent than the eight hours par seenre approximate equality of sacrifice) of to-day week contemplated in the new Education with exemption of the smallest savings, Bill, in order
rder to enable them to attend and for the rest at rates very steeply and other classes in the day graduated.
INCOME-TAX REFORM, wherever pract
the hours practicable, the
and higher
time
Finally,
technical and of adult labour should be reduced to not more than 48 per week, without reduction of the standard rates of Lunges. There
are
unemployed.
Acts
nation's land, to be applied as
proceeds, ought at once to be thoroughly The income and super taxes, the report reformed in assessment and collection, in
NO MORE DUMPING,
mercial rivals of Great Britain in all the industries. Nor was it for nothing that the Germans did their utmost with The arguments brought forward by the money and enthusiasm to keep alive the Free Traders are disingenuous as well as Cobden Club, the centre of the worship. This is a measure of fear or They had but to burn incense at the foolish. that. We are right to fear the unscrupu for ever the precious priviléges of their jealousy, says one. It is no worse for shrine and hope that they might guard laps encroachment of our foes. We thould trade.
eccur and for 28 al the present unduly low minimum income in due time, and the report of the Comer, And it is neither an economist Coppemistration of the
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$1.10
5-75
SUBJECT TO HIGH EXCHANGE REBATE.
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can be no cconxaic or other justineation abatements and lowances, and be disgraced were we not jealous of our And the ideal which the Free Trader for keeping any man or woman to work graduation and differentiation, so as to commercial honour and independence has always kept before him le the idea! for long hours at overtime, while levy the required total sum in such We cannot, if we cherish due reeper of cheapness. A poney in the pocket way an to make the real sacrifice of all for our liberty, put unreservedly in the The Service
Party opposes the continuance of taxpayers as early as possible equal tower of our momies the very means of sets to him the best possible compensa
Hardie Mr and Mrs. R. A Herald, Mr. The Mi
moment This would involve assessment by families prosperity and defence. Not in obedience to for all the wealth bestowed upon
and Mrs. K. Ingerslev Mr. H A Irvin, Muz A Jorcos, Mr. F. E. Jarrett, Mr. than the imperative requirement instead of by individuals, so that the to pedantry, not in the blind acceptance Germany. What matters it that the
DM-Kable, Mrs. E. B. Kadoone, Mr. of the war demand. It stands for the burden would be alleviated in proportion of a worn-out dogma shall we place the uns control our metals so long as t
smiles apon every A Rev and Mra. W V. Ashe and K. Lange, Mr E G. Lamberton, Mrs. tained. It would involve the raising of Sir Albert Stanley Bill will be passed question, which can receive but one
Mr. L. B. Ault Mr M. ABL Macloy Miss A: Mezis, Mr. E.C
Mr. G#M Malcolm, M Annett Mrs. W R D. Beckett, Miss McCulloug Body, Mr.RA Browne, Mr. APD. Miss L. union of the present unfair burden on the great disregarded, even by the CobdeniterThen the argument it is a poet. You hier, Madame M. Beranger, Mr and A. Ogden, Mr. E
H1 Boutelle, Mrs. and Mrs. C.
well as the great lines classes by a new seals of graduation nourcatment in favour of Imperial Pra said Coleridge in an oft-cited passage. His
mass of professional and small trading Committee has already given a pro- talk about making this article cheaper "
Cowles, Mr. A. Clemente, Mr- of communication and transport to le Rev. and Mrs. R. Cinney
E. Cukran, from 80 to But in so daughter, Miss income of the millionaires. The excess the protection of key industries, and led you have rendered your country weaker and Mrs R. Cook, Mr. PC Courd,
with against a foreign for your article fr. D. M. Clark, Mr. and
is tolerably dear, I take it, after all. Is Clough,
Mrs. R not its real price enhanced to everyDreysse, Rer Christins and patriot a bundred-fold 1" bita and that is the best answer
canals,
common
posts
railways and along with barbours and roads, and and telegraphs, as of
in & united national worked for the com
or even 198, the pound on the ses the return of the railways to the oppases shareholders, declaring that the railways profts, tux might well be retained, and the breast by and canals like the roads must hence the whole taxation of inheritance ought anfeigned journ forth belong to the public alone Both in to his re-arranged from the standpoint of the railways and nationalized mines the asking what is the maximum amount that It is the parad Party Baggonte steadily increasing any rich man should be permitted at denite that he is willing participation in the management, both death to divert by his will, from the central and local, of the employees, and National Exchequer, which should nor aim at household cost of standard mally be the heir to all privat riches quality, at a fixed and uniform price for in excess of a quite moderate amount by ** (Continued at food of next Column)
way of family provision Times
Free C
of the
Empire in obedience to foresaw the fatale always in The Radical is not wont to accept word of any master angusationis
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