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Sentence of three months in the second division was passed by Mr. Bingley at Marylebone on Henry William English, aged 53, of Hewer-street, Notting Dale, who claimed an adventurous career as soldier, oil speculator, native labour organiser in Africs, and official umpire at Wimbledon and other well-known tennis tournaments.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1928.

NEW ERA FOR TRADE UNIONS.

TURNING POINT REACHED IN 1927.

During 1927 Trade Unioniam has been mainly engaged in licking its wounds.

It was badly crushed by the Strike of 1926, and is still a long way from having recovered. As a result of that foolhardy policy its financial resources were onormously depleted, and ever since then the: membership has been declining,

During 1926, which was to be He was charged on remand the year of its greatest triumph, with stealing and receiving £15 It lost b. per cent. of its member-. worth of furniture, &c., belonging ship and dissipated over five and a to Mury Anderson, aged 84, Corn-half million pounds,in dispute bene- wall-road, Bayswater, to which he it. Early this year it became had previously pleaded guilty and

that the eventa of offered to make restitution with evident money stated to be coming from the previous year had given New Zealand.

most of the Trade Union leadera And the Curiously to think. result of their thought has been broadly that they recognise that 1926 brought them to the end of

He had stated that he was a man of good education, had served in the Boer War, Zulu revolution, Dutch revolution, and during the Great War; that he travelled allen era. over Africa for a group of mines, bad made and lost fortunes in oil

Trade Unions Bill.

The day of bigger and bigger speculations, and, as oficial um Trage Union amalgamation, with pire at Wimbledon, Chiswick, and bigger and bigger, and more fre- Hurlingham tennis tournaments, know the greatest players in the grand slam is over. It has been quent strikes, culminating in one world and a great number of in-tried and found wanting, Only fluential people.

the Communists now profess any faith in the policy of the general strike, and it is mainly because they still advocate it that they have censed to count and are spurned by the Trade Union lenders,

Mr. Kearns, prosecuting, said that the money had not arrived from New Zealand, and English had told the same tale to others in whose houses he had stayed without paying.

He. Lold Miss Anderson that he was a member of a distinguished North of England family, whom she knew.

English, who wore a monocle, afler repenting his previous sketch of his career, sald that he had also been for a year in the special service of the present Duke of Atholl.

"He Died."

"On Christmas morning, 1902," ho continued, "I fought a duel in Madagascar with a Portuguese

officer,"

The Magistrate-Did you kill your antagonist? English (dramatically): Well, he died.

Swords for two: coffin for one? .---Yes.

English, proceeding, said that he was on the staff of the Union

When the Government introduced the Trade Unions Bill, the General Counell of the T.U.C., and the Labour Party entered on a big. campaign against it. But thut campaign, as all the world now knows, was a hopeless failure. The rank and file would not dance to the piping of the General Council, and even the opposition of the Parlia mentary Labour Party in the House of Commons petered out or became feeble, when they saw there was no response in the country.

knows better than the members of The Bill is now law and nobody the General Council that the rank and file of the working classes, so far from resenting it, are in the hearts grateful for the protection it affords them against a repetition of such leadership as produced the events of 1926. Among respon- sible Trade Union officials the policy of Cookism has no follow- ing to-day.

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of South Afrien from 1903-08, Д foundation member of the Trans- vaal" Federation, that he conduct- The Edinburgh Congress. ed all the private, confidential. Having failed to prevent the correspondence of the late Dr. passing of the Bill, the General Jameson and Sir George Farrar Council, recognising, as has been on the Union of Africa, and that said, that one era was ended and of the late General Botha and a new one' was beginning, started General Smuts. He had also been to look around. for a new polley. a big game hunter. In the late They know that they must do some- war he lost three brothers.

thing to justify even the existence The Magistrate-As I told you of Trade Uniouism, and they went before, you ought to write your to their annual Congress at Edin- life story. Mr. Bingley, continu- burgh in September in a frame of ing, said it was a most heartless mind quite different from that of theft. If it were true that Eng- former years. A week before that lish had this extraordinary fine Congress the Prime Minister had record he (the Magistrate) had made a speech in Scotland inviting no means of testing and had the Trade Union leaders to make been associated with these big a movement in the direction of men in. Africa, it was all the more peace in industry. He hardly need amazing that he had stooped to have done it, for before he made such a mean fraud on an old and that speech the General Council nearly blind woman.

had determined that at Edible feelers should be put out, and we had the specinelo of Mr. George Hicks, formerly one of the most violent of leaders, holding out the olive branch, and being whole- heartedly supported by other | lenders,

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The only thing they were con- cerned about was that Mr. Baldwin should not have the credit of any peace move, and they made it clear that they did not want the politicians to have anything to do with the movement for better re- lations.

Events have shown that they are as suspicious of their

bwn politicians as of supporters of the Government in this matter.

Leaders' Dilemma. What the Trade Union leaders

A confused straggle of duck boards, sodden, carpets, drooping bushes, broken trees, choking streams, muddy new ditches, boots, rubber boots, old army boots and new Russian boots- and householders wearily · brush- ing and mopping and wringin out. That was the impression, given last month by a tour of the suburban arcas devastated by North London's little streams.

The most vicious of these was are really feeling about for is a the Brent. January 2, was the new pulley. They do not yet know Brent's night out, the most riotou: what that now policy is to be, it has enjoyed for nineteen years. but it must be something different Carrying far more than its share from the old, and yet good enough of melted anow and rain water to justify their existence with the in по and aided by tributaries which rank and file. They are are usually sluggish mud-chan-position to fight, and therefore the ncle, the Brent swept over ita policy of reasoning with the cm- banks on that evening and ployer instead of fighting him has inundated hundreds of neres of made enormous strides during the house and waste land at Willes- year. The leaders would like, on don, Greenford, Colindale, Burni the employers' side, an opposite. body to the General Council of the Oak and other districts,

T.U.C., with a proper constitution and regular meetings to lay down general principles to be worked out n detail' by Similar joint councils in the various industries.

Early on Tuesday the water had begun to subside and the tale of devastation could be spelled out In ruined gardens and sodden furniture. The worst damage

It may come to that, but the was done. at Stonebridge Park; Willesden, where the Brent food- lenders are just beginning to ro ed 200 houses on the Willesden cognise and that is the really big Council

estate. The event of the year-that politics and housing Irouneholders had spent, In the Trade Tlonism do not go well to- gether. Mr. W. M. Citrine, the words of one of them, "ulmost a night of terror." They had break secretary of the T.U.C., makes no fasted in their bed-roome, for the secret of his disbelief in the cry of the Socialist politicians that the ground floors were still under

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prosperity. That is the polley to be the General Council in October classes is so great that I am sure which the General Council is com- when they elected Mr. Ben Turner they are anxious for Industrial ng round, and there can be no as President for the year. In a peace. Therefore I am going to doubt that. It is more popular with notable speech at the Congress Mr, talk about industrial peace as long. the rank and file than the policy of Turner had said: "Is it wrong to as I live." political turmoil in which the Trade co-operate with good men in the That is what has happened to Unions have lived since the war. world? Do we want Industrial | Trade Unionism In 1927; Its leaders A significant Indication of the peace? I am certain I do. This have been impelled to look around desire for the new policy was given worry of things for our industrial for a new policy and a new spirit.