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LABOUR'S CHARTER.

of

SATURDAY. AUGUST· 6, 19.

THE YELLOW RIVER

PERIL

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for a country eager to do the wise and just thing for itsown workers, and at the same time prófect its Story of the Washington

trade from unfair competition.. International Conference. dependent on the inhuman Danger of Breaking its Hanks. "Whereas the Lagus exploitation of labour in other.

Following an inspection of the Nations has for its object the countries.

bank protection Works of the establishment of universal peace, Organisations concerned with Yellow River in Shantung. Mr. Z and such pears can be established the establishing of better relations Y. Chow, Chief Technical Expert (only if it is based on social justice, hetween Capital and Labour vied of the Ministry of the Interior, And whereas conditions of with each other in providing bas submitted a report upon thair labour exist involving justice, Barnes with opportunities to present condition and bardship and privation to large address meetings on his achieve improvements numbers of people as to produce meat. The plass printed many estimates that the expenditure of

required. unrest so great that the peace articles by him on the now era he $400,000 will be necessary in order and harmony of the world are was supposed to have opened in to reader the banks only tem imperilled and an improvement the bistory of Labour. Those porarily safe. of these conditions is earnestly articles read rather cariously to-be devoted to the repairing of This sum would required; as for example, by the day One in the People's Year dykes, reconstruction of grains regulation of hours of work, in- Book" hails the outcome of the and construction of new croins, cluding the establishment of a Washington Convention as the and would include the cost of both maximum working day and triumph of the ballot box by fair labour and material. week: the regulation of the means," and declaims fervidly

That portion of the river flow- labour supply, the prevention of against any kind of strike, or ing through Shantung, the report ouemployment, the provision of "direct action.” to achieve better explains, consists of a series of an adequats living wage; the conditions.

Then there was an interval. is much narrower than in flooza. curves running oast and west, and i protection of the worker against

sickness. and injury arising out Many of the workers thought for to many places the river-bed is of his employment," etc.

a time that the Washington Con-silted up, while the velocity of the So reads the preamble to reption had legtaistive powers current is tremendous, particular- "Labour's Charter." an integral and that the new conditions were ly in the food season, and the portion of the League of Nations in force.

river consequently SCOUTS its

Covenant, designed to ensure the Attrade union branch meetings banks, which are generally of a fulfilment of those pr..nises made members occasionally got up and sandy nature, rather peavily. to Labour during the war. After spoke of instances that had come The protection works usually this impressive opening there to their notice of workers work-consist of stone or reed grains. comes a complicated. scheme for ing more than eight hours a day. constructed on the concave side the establishing of a tremendous-and inquired from where did the of beads to deflect the corrent Hy elaborate organization to bring women draw their maternity while the banks are otherwise

about these and other reforms, berteßit,

protected by a double line off writes the Trade Union corres- Twelve months elapsed. The dykes, of which those farthest pondent of the N.C.D.N.

extremists began to make savage) from the river banks have been This was the Covenant withly ironical speeches in the trade allowed to fall into serious dis- Labour, made by the Government, unions about the benefits of con-repair. and supported by the Constitu- [stitutional methods. Frade union

A SHIPTING COURSE. tional wing of the Labour Move officials, and labour workers aEow. The river bas shifted its course ment, if one may call them that ed Mr. Barnes under with postal in various places, forming new to distinguish them from the quaries asking when Labour's beads whose banks are unprotect more revolutionary spirits who Charter way to be ratified by Pared, while the groins at other points preached Direc: Action, and liament.

They pointed out to are undermined orerscked. There- claimed that the only way to get him how the delay was playing port recommends that those eon- anything out of it.

into the hands of the Bolshevists, ditions be immediately remedied, THE INTEGRITY OF ME BARNES, and asked if the whole thing were as a break in the dykes would The association of the Rt. Hon not on a parallel with the Sankey bring disaster upon hundreds of G. N. Barnes with the Govern Report on the coal industry; villages. ment in this scheme gave to an appearance of credibility that it would otherwise have lacked in the eyes of those who ware inclined to good faith.

merely eyewash to keep thej One particularly dangerous workers quie: until they had point mentioned is the river been besten down again.

bank along the villages of Hot- Barnes did what he could to get soli. Here the banks have the matter raised in Parliament been eroded to within 20 ft of Barnes is a man whose bonesty! but there was always something the foo: and ability have been rarely im-jin the way and he was put off it is thought that the bank might of the dyke, and pugned, even by the wilder spirits with one excuse after another. easily be washed away during a single day in the flood season. Should this occur, bundreds of villages would be flooded, and the Yellow River might again change its course to the ses

of the labour movement.

ME BARNES ABES A QUESTION Eleven months after the Armis Pa Friday, May 29, 18 months sice Labour's enthusiasm had after the Convention at Washing somewhat abated. Tet Labour ton, he succeeded in calling the never doubted but that the attention of Parliament to the fact moderate reformes outlined in the that the Government bad prevent- It is stated that more than 50 Labour Charter would be falälled.ed it from considering the six other points along the river's In October, 1919, it saw the Rt. draft conventions' adopted at course are in need of attention. Hon. G. X. Barnes set out with Washington. He moved that the Mr. Sexton to Washington, as the House should now consider them, these dishococrable methods of British representatives in the first and farther stated that all his dealing with Labour. International Conference of attempts to raise the matter Lord Robert Cecil (U) conclad- Labour according to the Charter. had been frustrated, and that ed a biting speech by saying that It was confident that Labour's be had received an insolent he believed that the vast mass of case was in good hands... letter from the late Minister of the people were waiting to see The discussions and difficulties Health, informing him that the whether this was a genuine effort at the Washington Convention Government had no intention of or merely a new piece of camou- Agored largely in the English ratifying the maternity conven- fiage and deception-merely a last press at the time, and were close-tion.

effort of a dying system to prop, ly followed by, the two wings of In the course of an acid speech itself up for another decade ortwo. our Labour movement in Eng he asserted that if the Govern Another Unionist member was land. The Constitutional side ment would not do this it proved sufficiently far-seeing to atate was elated with the ability shown that it was only concerned with that most right-thinking men and by Barnes in surmounting the Labour questions when a dispute women would sooner see legisls- opposition he had to meet and was on, and concluded by asking. tion arising out of the League of prepared to celebrate a notable) "Why does the Government Nations than out of the Third victors for reason as opposed to send delegates to International International Major Hil (W) said revolution. The extremists were Conferences if it intends to ignore that be considered that the Gov- correspondingly dejected, as the their conclusions? It has no ernment had treated the Washing- success of their propaganda is other effect bat to play into the ton Convention with contemp conditional on the maintenance hands of the Bolshevista. It is Capt Gee (U) pointed out bawl

whether it intends the Labour distrust among the workers. for the moderates to assume that scrap of paper, or whether it in-put to the vote it was lost by 109 There was all the more reason organization to be a sham, a mere When Mr. Barnes's motion was they had scored, as the proposed sends to honour its signature." votes to 69.

Dr. Macnamara, (Minister of melioration of Labour's hard-

On further attempt by Dr. ships was so obviously the wise Labour) answered him by moving Macnamare to carry his amend thing to do. Labour co-opera sa amendment that "In the opin-ment for the Government, Lord tion in rebuilding the disorganising of this house it is not expedi- Robert Cecil caused an angry ed world was essential. The eat in the existing circumstances scene by asking him if he was not exceedingly moderate. Nothing effect to the Washington Conven- even in this house, and with the price of it was apparently to be to proceed with legislation to give ashamed to use such argument, could be more reasonable or just tion on hours of labour."

kind of people that sit beind you." than to pay up and get on with "Expedient!" Surely it was ONLY ONE MORE STRAW the job.

with the Teutonic equivalent to So ende Labour's Charter. It

and growth of proletarian dis

content.

NOT MUCH, YET SOMETHING.

After exhaustive discussions the representatives of the employers workpeople and Governments

tire for the Government to say this would breed suspicion and

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herself for broken Treaties, workers why this last cynical be- frightfulness, and all the other trayal should cause 50 much catalogue of sbaines and dis bother. It is only the last of al 41 States, agreed (subject to cer! honours. But that doesn't bother long series. There are more con- tain special conditions and con- the excellent doctor, who went onspicuous examples to be seen cessions to. Japan and Eastern to say that our record, in its deal-every day in our public streets. Countries) to six draft conventions ings with labour, was so good In Maarbester the police have -to an eight-hour day, and a 48-that any ratification of its permitted starving ex-service men bour week; to certain proposals to promises was unnecessary. openly to beg for coppers in the

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prevent women from working for Taxed specificially about the main streets, and at the door of a short time before and after child-eight hours day, Dr. Macnamara nearly every popular shop there birth, and to contribute to their said there were difficolties in ap-is a wretched man holding a box support in that period; to the esplying it to this country owing to inviting contributions to help the tablishment of certain funds to special industrial circumstances.į starving unemployed ex-soldier. support workers who were onem-[(Germany found it was impossible It is a characteristic of the ployed through no fault of their to keep her word to Belgium be-present Government that is the own; to abolish child labour below cause there were "special diffical-first for nearly a hundre years the age of 14: to establish Labour ties" in getting to Paris quickly, that is afraid of ideas. Previous Exchanges; and to prevent the em-via the French frontier.) In re Governments have always ignored ployment of women and children ference to the other Conventions, the "hot air" that socialists and on night work.

he claimed that this country had revolutionists let off periodically. This was to be Labour's reward done as much, or more, than any It has been a safe policy to trust in improved conditions for win-lother. The truth is that this the people. It is a common mistake ning the War. It was very little, country has done absolutely noth-of a rogne to imagine that every the extremiste told ns, but Labouring that was not already done be-body else is a rogus.

is used to accepting a little. It fore the war. He was supported Nevertheless, it is a good sizn was at least something.

by Sir, Gurton Hewart and Sir that the honest men in the Coali The Rt. Hon. G. N. Barnes re- Montague Earlow.

tion Party, who care somewhat turned to England sad many e- The ensuing discussion was more for England's honour and coniums were showered upon him very remarkable for the evidence name than for naxt quarter's for the able way he had fought it gave on the part of the better dividends, are at last rising to a Labour's cade. The result was principled members of the Coali- clearer appreciation of what these generally, regarded as triumph hóp of a growing revolt against unserupulous tactics portend.

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