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"BOOBY AND SANKEY CHORUS."

LIBERAL PROGRAMME.

REVISION OF DEBT SETTLEMENTS.

WASHINGTON DEBATING THE

ADVANTAGES.

THE DAWES "SCHEME. "I predict that the voice of

Washington, Dec. 28. Liberalism will be paramount in the next Parliament," said Mr. Agent-General's raport urging Slaco-the-nublication of the Lloyd George, when he addressed that German reparations should a big meeting at Cardiff recently, be revised and Germany be told called to discuss the mines policy the precise amount she will have of the Liberal Party. The as- to pay the Allles, official circles sembly included nearly 600 miners here have discussed informally delegates drawn from every con- whether the United States should stituency in South Wales. Mgive the proposal its sanction. Lloyd George, who was accompanied by Miss Megan, was warmly cheer- *ed.

"I vow to you," he said, that the Liberal Party has taken up the 'Miners' Charter in God's Dare," and it means to utilise its power in the next Parilament to demand tho establishment of permanent peace in the coal industry on the basis of fair play to all those who toll and are in peril in order to serve their country in the depths of the earth. That is a pledge which I give here and now." (Cheers.)

"I mean

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The interest the United States has in the matter is not so much in what Germany will pay the Allica as what the Allies will pay the United States. If the total. of German reparations is reduced there must be revision of the Baldwin settlement and the settle ments made by other Allied tions.

Now it is questioned whether the reverse is not true. Would not, it is asked, the United States be the greatest gainer by an all- round adjustment? Would it not open foreign markets to American manufacturers, and would there not be a greater guarantee of the return of the huge amount of American capital "now · invested abroad?

The Debt Funding Commission and Congress have always refused to admit that there is any connex- ion between German "reparations and Allled settlements. This way Mr. Lloyd George alluded to at-notably so in the case of France. tacks made on him in connexion Congress, too, has always opposeć with the 'Sankey Report. "Those any reopening of the Allied debt attacks are often made by people settlements, on the ground that who have never read a line of the the United States would be the Report, and do not even know the greatest loser. colour of it.

to lay this booby, and Sankey chorus. (Laughter), What is known, us the Sankey Re port was signed by ons man alone, und his name was John Sankey.

"He was like a pelican in the wilderness, wandering alone with out a single miners' leader in his pouch. (Laughter.). When the miners' leaders say to me, 'Why did not you accept the Sankey Re- fort? my reply is, "Why didn't you These are arguments in favour sign it? They have not accepted of revision of the Dawes Plan, it up to this very hour. (Cheers.) but, on the other hand, except in "The existing trouble in the small circles, leniency to Allied mines has arisen through no fault debtors has never been popular of the miners. Every time they here, and there is no indication were called out to fight they obey- that it is any more popular to-day ed discipline in their own ranks,than it has been in the past They showed loyalty, pride, and There will be much discussion endurance which was one of the before anything is done, even if, herolsms of industrial struggles in eventually anything should b this country.

doubtful. done, which is, to say the least,

Still Unpopular.

The fault lay very largely with extremists and irreconcilable men on both sides. The mining Aa- until recently a Labour party leader sociation has been captured by ex- in South Wales. Upon a show of tremists who say, 'Well, any way, hands by the miner delegates, the if the worst conie to the worst, we resolution was declared carried un- can always blame the Tory Governanimously. ment. (Laughter.)

"Extremists, too, have captured the Miners Federation. If you

The "Charter" demanded:-

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1, Nationalisation of mining royalties;

ask their leaders what is wrong 2. The formation of a National with the mining industry they say

It is because you are, neglecting our slogans. (Laughter.),

Mining Council and a Pit Com- mitten in each colliery;

3. Better pay for miners by re- "The oftener slogans are repeat-gulation of prices; ed and the louder proclaimed the 4. Solution of minera' unemploy more deeply the people of this coun- ment by regulating the recruitment try stick their fingers into their of fresh labour, pensioning off ears, and so, according to the ex-old miners, and organised transfer tremists of the Miners' Federatian, of unemployed to other industries. all the trouble has arisen because

the people of this country would nut listen to their alogans. (Laughter.)

"I am glad that miners, not only in South Wales, but in Yorkshire, Durham, and other places, have made up their minds at last that their difficulties and distresses are not to become the stock-in-trade of any faction, and that they are in- alsting on a practical polley which will establish permanent peace and prosperity in the mining industry. "In fourteen years, there have. been five stoppages in what, with the possible exception of agricul- ture, is the greatest basic industry In the country. At the end of the fifth the miners find themselves in a worse plight than when they be gan,

"Is it not time for the workers in the industry to consider whether that policy can lead to anything but destruction and chaos?""

The Government of which he was the head after the war proposed legislation for the good of the In dustry, but it was rejected by the miners. A deputation came to see him at Downing-street. He said to the chairman of it! "Assuming that the Government cannot accept a policy of nationalisation, would you prefer that things should go on in the old way 7" and the chairman replied: "We would prefer the old system.

The railwaymen behaved differ- ently, because their leader, Mr. Thomas, shut up all the lunatics. (Laughter.) The railwaymen to day, were reaping the benefits of that leadership.

The Land of Promise. "The trouble with the miners' has been that they would accept nationalisation or nothing. They have acted like an Israelite of old; who might have stood on the banks, of the Red Sea and said, "Before

I go across I must have an assur- ance that we are not going to lofter about, that we go straight to the Land of Promise, that that Pillar of Fire will go straight there and never wind about. If you do not do that I stick hore with Pharaoh. (Laughter.)

"There is no short cut to the Land of Promisc. It is part of the great, effort to bring out the best In mon and nations not to make. the paths too

easy for us,"

(Cheers.)

A resolution Liberal "Miners Charter" was adopting the moved by Mr. Jack Jones, who was

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