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KING GEORGE AND THE LEADERS OF THE LABOUR PARTY..

INVITATION TO DINE AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE.

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COLONIZATION IN SOVIET RUSSIA.

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"CALIFORNIAN COMMUNE."

Moscow, March 4th. The frequent applications received by the Soviet Government from all over the world prove that the attention of advan turous men and women is being attracted by the wide, uncultivated, tracts of land LONDON, March 15th.in Soviet Russia. Their hopes are roused by the assurance that the energy devoted XOYALTY AND THE LABOUR PARTY.

by the proletarian pioneer to the develop Times are rapidly changing in this ment of these virgia lands will receive country of age-long tradition and social encouragement from the Soviet Govern-

customs. Labour is coming into its ment. political kingdom as one of the great;

time.

LAND AND GOODWILL.

parties in the State. One of the significant) At present Russia can give the immig- indications of the trend of events is the rant pioneer land. It can also offer him invitation by the King to Mr. Rammy goodwill-but little else. Working men Macdonald, the Leader of the Labour from other countries have come into Opposition, and some other leading Russia during the past year, but so far members of the Party, to a private dinner they have come mostly to give, and not at Buckingham Palace. There has been & y reenive. They have come to offer their good deal of comment about this, some of Western efficiency and Western technical it very wide of the thark. The plain fact skill to help to rebuild Russia's shattered is that the King, as the head of the Con-industries and her stricken agriculture. stitution, knows no political divisions, and This aid the Soviet Government wel- the invitation is sent to the Opposition comes; it also appreciates the value to leaders just as a similar invitation would Russia of the example of modern agricul LTD., have been issued to Liberals or Consur:tural method applic to the development ratives if it had happened that they were of uncultivated Innd. It looks forward filling the role in Parliament at the present to the possibility of itself giving dasist- ance to foreign working class' cecnomic organizations and to working class poli- The invitation was sent some weeks ago, tical rafugee. On such motives was based but the fact has only now leaked out. the proposal of a grant of land to the When it was received, the Labour men Italian Co-operative Societies; and the held a little conference to decide what arrangemente made for the return of the their attitude should be; and it was then Canadian Dukhoborn to their land of decided that it was their loyal duty to origin had the same end in view. accept His Majesty's command. Labour Members are quite open and frank A Land concession of this kind waa in saying that they will at all times be as recently granted to an American guild of scrupulous and attentive as any other of agricultural workers called the party in the State in observing the foraian Commune" consisting of 1,000 rules of the Constitution and in obeying desiatin (about 2,700 acres) of land in the King's commands. This is how Salak district of the Don region. prominent Labour M.P., expressed it a concession is for a term of twenty-four few days ago in the course of conversation. years, and the Commune undertakes to employ modern agricultural methods for developing the fall capacity of the lensed lands.

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One half of the land must be Meanwhile, some of the Labour Members and their wives bare had the honour of broken up and prepared for sowing, in meeting the King and Queen at a dinner the current year, and the remainder in party given by Lord and Lady "Astor at the following year. Payment of rent will their Town house in St. James's Square, not be demanded until the end of three S.W. They were Mr. and Mrs. J. Years, when it will amount to five per Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Clynes, and cent of the total crop. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Snowden. dinner was kerred at two oval tables A concession of a slightly different decorated with orange coloured tulipa, nature was the one recently granted to the Echo." The The company numbered about 45, and Jewish colonizing society, included some of the most distin-object of this agreement is not that the guished people in London Society. society should toolf engage in agricul but that it should assist by Others present, in addition to the Labour ture, M.P.a and their wives were the Mayor and finance and credits Jewish cultivators Mayoress of Plymouth (the constituency already working in Russia. It will im that Lady Astor represents in Parliament), port agricultural machinery, live-stock, Mra. Wintringham (Lady Astor's fellow and form material generally for supply- woman M.P.), Mr. J. C. Garvin (Editor of ing the existing Jewish land colonies in the Observer) with Mrs. Garvin, and Mr. Russia, White Russia, and the Ukraine on credit. The society also undertakes to Geoffrey Dawson (Editor of the Time), offer like assistance to the Jewish home and Mrs. DawEON.

industries by supplying them with tools, All things considered, it is pretty evident machines, raw materials, and so on. that the new attitude towards Laboar is a Assistanco will also be given to revive and case of "coming events cast their shadow develop the Jewish trade and agricultural before." It is only a question of time-schools. The activities of the society will probably a few years at nicat-before be supervised by a committee consisting Labour is in Parliament by the votes of the of two of its own representatives, twa people as His Majesty's Government. There from the Government, and one other ap are worthy folk-here who wilfully refuse to pointed by both sides jointly. recognise that fact, and they are supported in their views by what they read in certain organs of the Press, but it is surely the height of folly not to accept the inevitable and prepare to deal with it in a practical

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Recently the Council of People's Com missaries of the Soviet Union decided to: set aside 220,000 desiatios of land (about 500,000 acres) in the south of Eussia and in the Volga district as a land reserve to bo granted in the form of concessions to working class settlers from foreign coun- There is a pleasant family touch about tries. This Russia can do, but it cannot the baptismal names of Princess Mary's itself provide the wherewithal for the

development of these lands. infant.von. In George Henry Hubert we migrant himself must bring with him all have the Christain names of the child's that is necessary by way of tools and OBTAINABLE Bogal grandfather, his father, and bis agricultural machinery for the transfor paternal grandfather. It is a change from mation of virgin soil into fertile land, the Leopolds, Alberts, Victors, Christians, and sufficient funds to maintain himself etc., emacking of Teatonic influence, which and his family during the process was, the fashion in Queen Victoria's day.). The Marquis of Clatricarde from whom the third name is derived died seven years ago, and the gross value of his estate was' £2,500,000. His fortune came t the Royal baby's father, Viscount Lascelles. Ford her shall receive a reply, always in her own Clanricar le, whose mother was a daughter of George Canning, never married, and at his death the marquisate and other titles lapsed, but the earldon passed to his cousin, the Marquis of Sligo..

For a good many years Clanricurde a in the full glare of publicity as the sternest and most uncompromising member of the Irish landlord class. He fought the Nation alists on the land question, and even refused to sell bis estates when the Wyndham Act offered him inducements to do sa At one time he was probably the most hated man from the Land League point of view. For years he lived in London, almost as a re cluse and certainly as a miser. His clothes were so ahabby that his appearance attracted attention in the street; and be generally ate his lunch out of a paper bag.

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