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„The Triple Alliance base their claim to dictate foreign and hame policy to the nation on the argu- "ment that the last election was a catoh contest whose vote relat ed only to one special issue, which is now determined. The Govern- ment decline to carry out the decision of the Sankey Commission which they them- selves appointed, on the ground that they have neither mandate nor" power in this Parliament to carry out, the revolutionary change in our economic policy which that Commission recom mended.

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company's permission. Three ment For these three men the whole of the company's em- newployees threatened to hold up one of the chief arteries of British trade. When the Government saw that the railwaymen meant it they ordered the three demo- bilised saldiers to be restored to their former grade.

Why could not that have been done at first? Why have fed the spirit of revolt by giving the strikers so easy and· signal a victory! That is the sort of thing which happens constantly. Still boldly crying. "We will ne'er consent," the Government feebly drift from bold defiance to meet concession.

plunge the country into the of impossible promises, whose their return from the war because horrors of a general strike, and non-realisation further swelled | they had enlisted without the to give the Government's clear) the surge of discontent.' mandate as to what the country THE ERA OR PROMISES. wants, is to refer the perilous The Premier told the people problems of the time to the that they must have a judgment of the whole people. heaven upon earth, and a country Besides, this shilly-shally, fit: for heroes to live in. But happy - go - lucky Government when the heroes came home won't do Effacement of individual they found, instead of heavenly principles in a Coalition Ministry mansions upon earth, a plentiful served well enough for the simple | lack even of habitable hovels. function of helping our saldiers to Sir Auckland Gedes told the kill Germans. But to grapple people that "he wondered there with the поге complicated had not been a revolution years problems of civilised life at pre-ago, because the record of our sent confronting us, men need health bespeaks the record of bad deliberate and definite opinions, housing and insufficient food, they need minds of their own, light, air, sleep, and recreation they need the will and pluck and that reflects in the most dreadful freedom to fight for their beliefs way upon our life as a fiation." The Coalition system muzzles He grandiloquently” denounced principles and paralyses action. the system of the bad old past It emasculates energy and re-which had taken more interest in solution. It takes the backbone pedigree pigs than "in the great out of statesmanship, and reduces pedigree stock of the British it to the mean makeshifts and nation." All these things were petty expediencies of compromise.to be revolutionised "while you That is what is the matter with us, wait.”

Dr. Addison called on trade We have, in effect, & Govem- unionists end employers to ment of human jellyfishes, wob-recognise that "the interests of big, invertebrate, incapable of the future require a system policy. Instead of riding in the vastly different from that which political whirlwind and directing Prevailed in the past." the social storm, they are wafted The "Special Intelligence Branch" of the Ministry of Reconstruction issued a report informing the workers that the age of mechanical development till they had become mere cogs had effectually degraded them

THINGS OF STRAW

like helpless things of straw upon the blast of a squall which is fast bearing the whole country to riot and rulo.

Fin the machine"

The degradation of human beings to the position of mere labour as 'hands' and the treatment of a commodity to be bought and sold," sadly admitted the Special Intelligence, "have

This statement is nu figure of journalistic hyperbole, but the sober assertion of a terrible fact. We are on the edge of the most tremendous industrial cat astrophe our history has known

The peril has not suddenly sprung from placid skies upon an unsuspecting Government and people. We saw it coming in the created a revolt in the minds of days before the war, when it large section of the community." The subordination of workers to already threatened a general-stop-industrial regulations for which page of industry.

The flash and blaze of the Ger.they were not themselves respon- sible was denounced as "incon- man guns temporarily threw it into obscurity: but even in the sistent with the rights and most depressed and anxious days inherent in membership of any obligations which ought to be of our national struggle for exis- tence it never ceased to threaten. The report concluded with this organised group within society." It hovered ominously, like a thua der cloud. It gath red to itself all Prophetic pronouncement: the discontents and discords A new era has come upon us. which are the inevitable concom- not return to the old ways, the

We cannot stand still We can itants of war. It steadily grew old abuses, the old stupidities. As bigger and blacker.

with our international relations, 90 with the relations of classes nation. If they do not henceforth and individuals inside our OWA

get better they must needs get worse, and that means moving towards an abyss We have awakened to the splendid qualities that were latent in our people, the rank and file of the common Now we see what

Every observer with open eyes foresaw that unless the wisdom of statesmanship effectively steered clear of the boding storm it would burst upon us at the end of the war with a disastrous crash.

THE HIDE-HEADS.

But the Government-perhaps unavoidably concentrated on the war and did nothing to prepare people.. for the gathering storm at home. potentialities lie in this people and They never had any policy of in- what a charge lies on us to give dustrial appeasement and con- these powers full play. struction. The internecine factors of Coalition which had combined

THE BEAUTIFUL DREAM. All which, though I powerfully to save the country from defeat and potently believe, yet I hold by a foreign enemy were not able it not honesty (nor expediency) to combine on Issues which to have had it thas set down involved divergence of" hered- unless the beautiful dream was itary habit -and personal to be immediatley realised. interest. The problema of What was needed at the end of peace were therefore ignored, the war was a more meagre diet and the Government drifted en of pretty phrases and a large LONDON DIRECTORY, the tide of chance with no other banquet of practical achievement. guiding principle than Come- The Government should have set day, go-day, God send Sunday." about the things they meant to When trouble threatened, they do, instead of tantalising, and hastily bid their beads and flung mocking the people with pro- reckless extravagance of pay andmises which they could not fulfil promises overboard. They lavish-" ed largesse on shipowners, coal talking, they should have talked If they really could not help

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with detailed pacicules of the Goods shipped owners, and all the ravenous gang of the desperate gravity of our of profiteers, including munition financial and economic position workers. They squandered and and warned the nation of the scattered the national wealth and effort which would be needed to credit with Gargantuan shovels. re-establish our trade, credit, and The notorious 1214 per cent, is presperits.

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the outstanding and unforgettable An. Irritating splutter of monument of their "policy." sporadic little strikes and threaten

When the armistice came ited strikes has been allo was inade painfully manifest unecesse that the Government were as general unready for peace as they had two rec been for war. Destitute of plan, they fell back on dole," which merely made things worse. They became more prodigal than ever had bee

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SHILLY-SHALLY WITHOUT END, But the summit of their shilly. shallying has been scaled in their "policy

with regard to the miners In December 1916 Mr. Lloyd George told the Labour representatives:

"As regards mines, there is only one solution, and that is that the State should take over control of the mines.

The control of the mines should be oationalised as far as possible.” At the beginning of this year the miners by a majority of half a million decided on strike. The Government hastily intervened. with the offer of a Commission grievances. The miners accepted. which should investigate their

Mr. Bonar Law, in arging the miners to postpone action till the Commission had reported, said:

"If this Commission is allowed to continue, interim reports will after subject in which you are all be issued dealing with subject vitally interested, and it is part of the Government undertaking to spirit as well as in the letter, and deal with these reports in the- steps will be taken to enable these recomendations to be carried into effect."

ed in favour of nationalising the Now the Commission has decid-

generally understood, decline to mines, and the Government, it is

legislate conformably.. Mr. Lloyd George contends that he has no to carry out the Government's mandate from the constituencies promises.

as Mr.

One might very reasonably reply that the Government should making any promises. One might have thought of that before

very justifiably ask, Arthur Henderson asked me the other day, what would have been said to the miners if the verdict had gone the other way and they had declined to accept it.

QUESTION FOR THE NATION, Bat no reasonable man wants to settle grave national questions on debating points. This is a grave question. It is too grave and momentous to be decided by tricks of political strategy, or by the miners' desire, however earnest, or by the private interest of any person or body of persons. It is a question of national ex- pediency and the nation should be allowed to decide.

instrument of the British Con- Had the Referendum been an stitution, as I tried to make it before the war on a Parliament ary Committee of which Lord Robert Cecil was chairman, the question should have been sub- that, Mr. Lloyd George, being mitted to referendum. Failing pledged to try to nationalise the mines, is bound in honour and in the interests of the national security to ask for authority from the electors of Britain.

upon which the miners have.set A blank, refusal of the claim their hearts, and, in which they have been supported by the Premier, Mr. Bonar Law, and the Governa special Commir-

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