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IN AND OUT OF PARLIAMENT

By Ernest Thurtle, M.P.

TAR between Lords and the Government are ready to Wommon is now dearly im- incur thera

minent. Breakdown of the They bellove timo ls on their negotiations for a reformed aldu

Upper House has produced this

situation.

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We shall hear much more of THE 21 challenged Nenni M.P.8,

this in the coming weeks.

as expected, have yielded to the ultimatum, and given 籍

First act of hostilities will be party rejection by the Lords, shortly written undertaking of future loyal- after Whitsun, of the Govern- . to Labour polley. ment Bill to reduce the delaying power of the Upper House from two years to one.

Thereafter the Government will take the necessary con- stitutional steps to ensure that the rejected measure will be come law in spite of the Lords' opposition.

This will make it necessary for the Government to remain in ollice until the early summer of 1950, when a general elec- tion must take place.

There are electoral risks in this course, but I understand

The net effect of the action of the

National Executive is to reassert the authority of the leadership, which at one time looked like being brought into contempt. ·

Yot in the Parliamentary Party

tself few believe that the submis alon represents any real change of heart so far as some, at least, of the offenders are concerned.

A man enerced' against his will is of the same opinion still. And there is good ground for believing that the hearts of some of theso offenders are in Moscow, and aro not with British Labour's exerts to preserve Western Europe from Com- munist dictatorship.

QYDNEY Silverman, M.P. for Nelson and Colne, was asked by his local party to come to heel on the Nenni telegram Issue.

A 53-year-old Liverpool solicitor, stocky of build, and owner of a mass of light hair, Silverman is an ex- ceedingly able parliamentarian.

Well versed in Commons pro- cedure, he is always ready and willing to engage in a dialectical Irny.

He has courage plus a consider- able degree of confidence in himself, and many Government and' other spokesmen have found him a thorn In their flesh, for he is an adept at raising awkward points with a dis- arming plausibility.

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ORGAN PHILLIPS was . In the pre-Phillips days such

the name on all the an attack would have twenty one envelopes answered by from the twenty-one M.P.s who Mr Morrison or even Mr Attlee -on the ground that the secre- said, in varying terms, that tary was merely carrying out they would not send telegrams the instructions of the exccu- of good wishes to Signor Nenni tive. Not so this time. or any other "fellow traveller" Morgan Phillips will speak for himself on the ground that again.

he helped to shape this policy.

Morgan Phillips. is the man who would have taken imme- dinte action if the answers had gone the other way-if the defied the national M.P.e had executive of the Socialists.

Morgan Phillips would have

Mr

£1,000 a year NOW there are two reasons for the emergence of Morgan Phillips as a most positive force in the Socialist hlerarchy.

In four years his grip on power has tightoned

was the late Jim Walker, leader of The proudest memory Morgan the fron and steel workers,

who headed the attack against Cripps, For don't forget Cripps was expelled for wanting to "do a Neani" by tying up wiuf the Communists

admission that

HE would, in office, have made an

excellent Ministerial stone- waller, his verbal dexterity being great.

What he would be like 28 administrator is not easy to say, for the effective critic is not neces- sarily the man for positive achieve- ment.

Time was when I thought he would be taken into the Govern ment fold, if only for the sake of peace and quietness. Such things can happen.

Now, however, it looks as though gap between him and ruling authority is too great for this,

the

keeper:

Phillips bas of his talk with Stalin WHO will look after the

himself? asks, the did Latin a couple of years back was Blalin's ing. democracy was feasible for Eng-may be said to be the keeper of the

perhaps social

Mr Shinwall, as Labour chairman,

land. It is authority from the very party's discipline. Kremlin itself which Morgan Phi-.

was, therefore, gulity of an lips won't hesitate to use on the. unfortunate lapse when he publicly criticised Labour's lack of adequato Communists,

preparation for schemes of donalisation.

There is another polat in common between the two of them-Stalin and Phillips

Both are the kind of men, who ore prepared to wait for power. Stalin had to. Phillips is prepared

The first is personal. Morgan Today trade union leaders on the had no need to consult anyone Phillipa is debarred from becoming Socialist executive

not aro

50 in telling the M.P.s in these an MP. as long as he holds his vociferously anti-Communist. There £1,000-a-year job. Ho are exceptions, like Som Watson, circumstances that they would present

miners. But the not be admitted to the Socialist cannot, therefore, become a Minister. of the Durham

But he is able and ambitious, zen- white-hot campaign is led now by Party's annual conference...atious and thorough. So he blds-for-the-college-trained intellectual Scarborough.

the only alternative open to hit ex-workers: Ancurin Bevan, James power

at the head of the party Griffiths and Morgan Phillips. Indeed, it is Morgan Phillips. machine.

This group says that while it Lavoure tho idea Morgan Phillips all the way

of a Western He has been

It is not that ho is ostentatious - Union it does not see much point 10. these days.

about all this. Far, from it. secretary of the Socialist Party just goes on doing the right thing Socialists

He in getting teamed up with only four years-secretary of a so often that the elected members party which made up its mind of the executive have come to a after the departure of Ramsay cept his leadership as natural. MacDonald and Arthur Hender- On the personal side, he is a son that never again would the good mixer and is quiet in his secretary be the master- illssent, rurely showa emotion instead of the servant of the national executive.

miners over the

non-

A Further, these people have positive conviction that social democracy can be made to work,

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I would describe him as a young middle-aged man who knows where he wants to get in 10, 15 years from now.

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Whether or not the criticism had any Bound basla" may be “a” matter for argument, but there can be no doubt that it was a gloring Indis- cretion for one occupying so im- portant position thus to provide valuable ammunition for the oppon- ents of nationalisation,

Emanuel's tongue is a spirited organ, but it is not always under perfect control,

Even when he recalls his early days in a Bargoed coal mine when ho was working, because he was Of course, I do not claim that on the dole on and off for years up -Morgan Phillips has already be- to 1020; even when he remembers how the miners of the Rhymncy come the master of his execu- Valley held a penny collection to tive. But (as they used to say buy the suit in which he left to of that other Welshman Lloyd become a student at the National engineer, died suddenly at East hardening steel wire the foundation Parker was inspector of the royal Labour College in London; and even Wittering, Sussex, three days of the textile industry's carding, of motor-curs for Edward VII. He was George) "he's only' a young when at 19 be led more than 1,000 after telling a Sunday news fabrics he got £1,000. For an im- also an original chemist. For the man yet."..

revolu- last 35 years his main income had mountain to get;

a retainer

from

the Bran To be precise, he is 45. and relief for their children....all the paper that he had invented a proved evaporator which

other £1,000.

marketing his process for using:. be his death-bed.. in these last four years he has time his voice is steady, his eyes new type of bed which was to tionised salt production he got an- con changed the whole relationship

His cyaniding plant multiplied sulphur as a skin healer.

Said Mr Howard Parker, youngest from Millions of money have been gold output in South Africa tenfold.

three sons, "Apart of the party executive principal official.

made out of Mr Parker's great. It amused him to boast: "I was the of the

motoring-he was always taking his cars to pieces and improving them- est creation-the sparking plug. man who built Jo'burg.”

but in- I will illustrate what I mean. HE is also what you might call Millions more have flowed from But apart from his fees, and a my father had no hobby When Emanuel Shinwell pre- ideologically, lucky. There has

"His sketch books of incomplete- sides at the Scarborough con- and eternal aght between

been a great change in the internal his second greatest the jet gold ring fashioned out of the first venting.

the control on which almost all the yield from his machine, he profited

Inventions run into thousands of nothing. ference he will call on a Left Socialists and the Communists.

carburetters of cars today are

pages. Years ago he found he had Aving delegate to propose a re-

based.

The speed-control handle seen on no time to lead a normal life; bo almost every from In the world lived in a world of his own where solution condemning Morgan

today was Parker's.

he struggled to find better ways of Phillips for opening the anti-

He was a superb maker of clocks, doing a hundred things, Communist campaign back in

inventing new escapements equalling the winter.

all. the most accurate in the world. He

THE WORLD OF AN INVENTOR

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For the first MR THOMAS Entures

centre-second stop- For the first method of bright- watch ho got nearly £1,000,

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