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Sir John Simon, in a well-bn- anced and filuminating speech at Cleckheaton (Spen Valley) last month, dealt at length with the recent crisis.M

The owners did not like it; - "In a crfals which involved the and even on the part of the min- stopping of the essential services fers there was an inconclusive bal- of the country the traina," the lot but we persisted and within buses, the ports and Press and a fortnight, normal work was re- which, if it was effective, must Jaumed. have ended in strangling the life Mr. MacDonald's Opposition. - of the community, the plain duty "On the third and final reading of everybody was to decido, with of the Bill, Mr. Ramsay MacDon- out thinking of party or personal aid and his friends actually voted advantage, whether he wanted the against it, but it settled the strike, general strike to succeed or whee ? The efforts of Liberal lenders in There are many workmen and ther ha wanted it to fall,** preaching conclliiation when pas trade unionists in this country "I wanted it to fail. And so, I alona were high undoubtedly had who still do not clearly see the am sure did the overwhelming a great effect on the subsequent essential difference between a mage of our fellowscountrymen. settlement of the general strike, general strike, such as this, and But everyone who wanted the "It was the Liberal party which the exercise of the undoubted general strike to fall everyone Incorporated the Archbishop's right to strike, whether on a small who understands what it would proposals in a resolution; and sub-for large scale, which is perfectly have involved if it was prolonged mitted them to Parliament the day lawful and which liberal-minded must have desired to end it as before the strike was called off, men of all parties have recognised soon as possible.

It way for this reason that E

The handling of the cool disa a legitimate weapon. pute by the Government," said "This distinction does not turn took the view that the best service Sir John has been clumsy and in-morely on the falluro to give any man could render was to make effective. The Cabinet pureued a notice, though this was a very plain to all engaged in it tho course which was both inconsis serious matter. The real distinc serious consequences to the First Class on the Pacific. First Class on American or Canadian tent and dilatory. They have|tion lies deeper.

selves if it was not pro Ballway. First Class and Monoclass on the Atlantic. Choice or Trans been so unfortunate as to pro- did not speak in the House aoandoned. Continental Railway. Any Lina on the Atlantic. Through accommodationduce the very situation In which of Commons a fortnight ago mere and Booking Arranged.

That was not an the infection of a general strikely as a lawyer, but as a citizen trade unionism, it

was might spread.

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They began, last July, by an-mendously in the right of wage which would have be nouncing at 6 o'clock one evening carners to combine and to strike itself that a subsidy to the coal trade as a means of putting pressure,For, in a country was impossible, and by granting if they think it necessary to do where people cannot it in rather nebulous terms four so, on their employers, but are always willing t hours later.

"A trade dispute, properly unsuaded, organised labour No Solution.

derstood, is a dispute in which ing a terrible mistake if "Whatever might be said in workmen combine to try to make against itself the stead justification for a subsidy as a their employers do something; but ment of fair-minded temporary expendient,. it la plain a general strike like this is a per-women.

that it provides no solution, and fectly different operation, for "On the railways there has been if the taxpayer is going to find necessarily works in an entirely a frank and manly admission by a subsidy to settle the difficulties different way. Mean?

the trade union leaders that the

of one trade, how many trades are "If it succeeds, the effect of it atrike was a wrongful act, and a there in the country which, with is to make-not employers, but written promise has been signed difficulties of their own, will not the Government do something, and that such conduct shall not be re- expect the taxpayera to give simi- Parliament, if Parliament sur pented. lur relief?

vives, do something. The ques- Estimates as to what the suption is not whether the people who hind these declarations, and "There is real statesmanship be sidy would involve wore greatly proclaim auch a strike are revolu- though the hot heads who were exceeded, and ultimately the Gov- tionaries."

enthusiastic for this method are ernment has spent £24,000,000.

"The question is whether the sore and indignant, the day will The country is entitled to know

success of a general strike does soon come when sensible trade what it has got for the mones not necessarily involve the sub-uniponists will acknowledge that "No doubt it was inevitable that stitution of the strikers' will for their legitimate rights have been months should be spent in prepar-the will of Parliament, and there preserved only by the frank aban- ing the Coal Commission Report, fore the overthrow of constitu- donment of an impossible position, but the Government atill has to

tional government

and by the renewed good will justify its use of the period after

"Nobody has put this more which their leaders have helped. the Report was presented,

"When Mr. Baldwin told the clearly, in time past, than some to build up ma Nouse of Commons recently that Labour. Mr. Clynes made a

of the most respected leaders of Victory for Britain.

The victory is a victory of the courageous speech at the Trade common sense of all classes. of

he had come to the conclusion

"

that there was no possibility of Union Congress at Glasgow in British people not a victory of September 1919, when he said lawyers over laymen, or a victory

the two parties to the coal dispute Coming to an agreement by them- selves, and that he had, therefore, prepared proposals which would be put before them by the Govern- ment, everybody must agree that that ought to have hech the action of the Government long ago,

The Liberal Government of. 1912 took a very different view of its responsibilities in tackling the coal crisis of that year. The | crisis ́arosò; because the miners.j were pressing for a minimum wage, and the owners rejected their proposals.

I have no doubt that we shall of one party over another, but be told that this new-found and just the influence of British char- ill-digested policy is worth a acter and British temperament trial. Those who have thought finding a way by which we might, this matter out know that in acting all together like true com- giving at a trial they would be.rades, retrace a false step and ac- gin by paralysing our indun knowledge a grievous error. And trica- and our whole social, sys-now let us forget the past and tem. That paralysis would think of the future. affect first, and worst, the We must regard the conclusion. masses of the poorer popula- of the General Strike not as the tion. You cannot do it without end of a crisis, but rather as the anticipating a condition of civil beginning of a sustained cffort by war.

the community to find a way out "It cannot be too plainly under- of the coal problem

"It is the duty of us all to re- As soon as it became clear that stood that the plans which were conferences between the parties disclosed on May 1 for stopping,cognise frankly that if sacrifices. did not produce agreement the without notice, a series of select are called for they cannot in fair- Government of that day put fored and essential industries in or ness be imposed on one section of ward, on its own responsibility, der to paralyse the nation and com- the community alone. its own schome..

pel Government and Parliament to “Liberals have made their pro-

Government That Acted.

The strike began and lasted continue the subsidy, are not the posals for dealing with the coal for some weeks, but the Govern-legitimate exercise of trade union industry, and there is much in ment of that day took the bold rights, and if they were, the com- the Samuel Report which con- courge of passing a Bill to estabmunity would insist that those vinces us that we are on the right

lines. lish a minimum wage for miners, rights should be curtailed.

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