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THE COAL NEGOTIATIONS.

DRIFTING DANGEROUSLY.

"A DOOR MUST BE OPEN OR

"SHUT."

[BY A.Ra]

TWO YEARS' LIBERTY SINCE

AGE OF 12.

BURGLAR OF 23 SENTENCED TO PENAL SERVITUDE.

··HIS LINER - EXPLOIT.

A husbed court listened with much interest at the Hastings Quarter Sessions

· As according to Renan a faith is to be to the story of the criminal activities measured by those who believe it, so to let a man, aged 23, who, since the age my mind a Government policy is gene- [of 18, has had but two years of liberty- rally to be valued by those who oppose The prisoner was Frederick Harvey, it. The opposition to the Eight Hours alias Leonard Clements, and he sena Bill by the trade unionists has been so charged with stealing £500 worth of childishly violent and so frantically irra. jewellery from a house in St. Leonards. tional that I am convinced, more than by Ho was sentenced by the Recorder to the Government speakers, that it is the three years” peual servitude. best of all possible Bills.

When Labour members foam at the mouth, gnash their teeth, and bellow meaningless abuse at the Prime Minister,

Detective-Inspector Milton said that at the age of 18 Harvey was convicted at Stratford and sent to a turant school for three years. By the time he was 13 years it must be obvious to the most careless of ge the boy had three more convictiona that they are fighting against a sentence against him, two at Stratford and one of execution. They plainly are terrified at Wallasey, and in 1917 and 1918 he lest the miners, when once the liberty of was convicted of charges of burglary

and larceny

Further at Liverpool. working another hour is given to them, may take advantage of it, and so grad charges of burglary and larceny were ually break up the strike. What a comproved against him in subsequent years, ment upon the liberty of England!

and usually he absconded from the indus- trial school to which he was sent. The Enemy of Labour."

*Sneaked on Lifer." Mr. Hartshorn, in his last speech, solemnly proclaimed Mr. Baldwin as the greatest enemy a the working classes this generation has produced Such a description is, as palpably silly though nut perhaps so coarsely provoca- tive, as the charges of pecuniary interest | in coal are we not all pecuniarily in terested in coalf-of secretly backing up the mine owners, and of subterraneously influencing the Royal Commissioners.

The facts are too strong against these brawlers, who make this return to Mr. Baldwin for his refusal to use his majority to curb the tyranny of the trade union_political levy, for his honourable" record as an employer of labour, in the family business, and for his infinite patience with Messrs. Smith and Cook. The Labour members cannot, perhaps, be expected to know that accusations, to be effective, must be at least partially true. But their leaders on the Front Bench might, one would think, point out to them that their behaviour in turning the House of Commons into a rowdy public meeting, and insulting the Prime Minis ter with gutter slang, can only injure themselves in the eyes of the public.

I hope I shall not be called to the Bar of the House and committed to the Clock Tower if I venture to express my opinion that the Speaker might be a little firmer In conveying to these back-benchers that they belong to the first legislative as sembly in the world, the majority of whose members are still gentlemen.The nation is vilipended in the person of its First Minister, and I am a little sur prised that there has been to public "demonstration of this fact.

A Grim Alternative.

hard-labour- at Stratford, he w08-arrest- Following the sentence of six months' ed soon after his release, and brought where he was remanded as a suspected before the Marylebone Police Court,

Person.

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He then carried out one of the most remarkable incidents of his career. He failed to surrender to his bail, but- "somehow reached Southampton Dock, where, in the words of the police re- port, he sneaked aboard a liner bound for America, took charge of a second- class berth, mixed with other passen- gers, and travelled to New York with- out paying his fare."

On arrival at New York he evaded. the steamboat, immigration, and Cus- toms officials and made good his land- ing.

He was soon in the hands of the police again, however, and at Palm Beach Florida, where he was known to be associated with criminalis, he was sent to prison for two years on a charge of breaking and entering a house.

Escaped from Prison.

He did not serve his sentence, how- ever, but by a clever trick escaped from the prison after serving eight months

Next he went to St. Lucie, where he became associated with a notorious chain gang of burglars who operated in and about Florida. He was again caught, however, and was sentenced to three years' penal servitude in July of last, year.

For a second time he tricked the prison authorities and escaped.

In September" the British Consulate at This is now the tenth week that we Atlantic City informed the American have been drifting towards economic police that Harvey had been found suffer disaster or physical. violence or both. It ing from loss of memory and was unft cannot be allowed to continge. The title to serve bis sentence It is believed that of one of the prettiest of "Alfred de it was by this trick that he escaped from Musset's Proverbes " is "Il faut the two prisons. qu'une porte aoit ouverte ou fermie." A

He was deported, and was arrested"

door must either be open or shut, but again on arrival at Southampton. He ever since March, when the Commission came to Hastings apparently on May reported, the Cabinet-for it is unfair to 11th, and was arrested on the following put all the responsibility on the Prime day. Minister-has been opening and shutting the door.

The exact relation of the Coal Com- missioners' Report to the industrial dis- pute seems to be misunderstood. ▲ Royal Commission is appointed by the Government, not to dictate a policy, but to inquire into the facts, and to report those facts, together with the inferences drawn from them and the evidence on which they are based. It would, indeed, be absurd if Sir Herbert Samuel and his colleagues (who are all, I think, Liberals) were to find a policy for Mr. Baldwin Mr. Lloyd George repudiated some parts of the report of the Sankey Commission, appointed by himself.

fresh negotiations on another basis? Once more the closed door is opened. But the, country has had enough of this. The question to-day is-Will England he governed by Mr. Baldwin or Mr. Cooki The Only Way. idealist, would have seen long ago that Mr. Baldwin, it ho were not an he was dealing with a man whose last wish was to settle the dispute, except by the overthrow by the mine owners, as the representatives of the hated capitalis system. Here let me correct a confusion When Sir, Herbert Samuel presented grandson, tell. The owner of the mineral, into which Sir Hall Caine,"a" miner a the Commission's report Mr. Baldwin the coal which lies beneath the ground, might have handed it over to the Miners' Federation and the Mining Association the Seaham collieries, the mine owner, is not save in one or two instances like with, Here are the facts, the evidence who is a company or an individual paying of the Commissioners' recommendations. a reat or royalty of so much a ton for It is up to you two to settle between the right to sink shafts and bew and yourselves." Or he might have said, bring up the coal.

The disputants have failed in nine months to agree,

The royalty or rent owner is no party The Government is now going to carry out its own policy, him into it. There is nothing to be gain

to this dispute, and it is unfair to drag | based on the report." The Cabinet halted by buying up the royalties at freehold ed between these two courses The valuation. The State would collect the Prime Minister's first gesture was to say royalties of ed. a ton in order to pay "Here is the report: if miners and mine the interest on the money. Even if you owners will agree to accept it, we, the Government, will help to carry it out compensation-an act of barefaced rob- expropriated the royalty-owner without Slowly, under pressure from the Gaver bery not yet within the pale of practical meat, the mine owners accepted; the politice it would not affect the dispute miners, or rather Mr. Cook, refused to between the Miners' Federation and the accept anything which involved reduction Mining Association, and the Government

of pay or increase of hours.

After two months of futile negotiations to be congratulated on having dropped with a Communist leader, the Govern this foolish recommendation of the Com. ment produces its own policy, a Bill mission.

allowing miners to work eight hours, and Sand Eunning Out.

a Bill to reorganise the coal industry, The sands in the glass are running out, chiefly by means of amalgamation and and the country expects the Government selling agencies. As soon as this policy not to reopen fresh negotiations, and so' is launched, Mr. Herbert Smith, the waste more time, but to impose its own Siamese twin of Mr. Cook, remarks policy on the Miners' Federation. It casually that he might have considered may be that so many miners will accept a reduction of wages, but an increase of the wages offered for eight hours that hours, never. If the Government had the back of the strike will be broken. It proposed a reduction of wages, Messra. may be that combinations such as that Smith and Cook would have said, that an started by Lord Aberconway may rapidly increase of hours might possibly have supersede the present system of isolated been considered, but that a reduction of groups. But if the national industry is wages was an attempt to reduce the to be rescued before it is too late, and standard of living, etc.

In the midst of all this hubbub and fidence of the public, the control of the if the Government is to retain the con- confusion, the Prime Minister makes a situation must be taken out of the bands speech in which he says in effect: "After of Mr. Cook. But how that avowed.Com all, my Eight House Bill is only per munist, the pupil of Lenin, is to be re missive, and if the miners' leaders don't moved from the leadership of the Minera like it. they can ignore it, and start Federation is not for me to say.

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