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PARLIAMENT

By Ernest Thurtle, M.P.

"UMULT and shouting over the death penalty_ngo-

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over, and we are back to the drill sergeant's "As you were!"

It has been an unfortunate business for the Govern- ment, and in particular for two of its lending Ministers, Mr Morrison and Home Secretary Edo.

They have both had to make fervent appeals for loyalty, which have not met with much response from the party,

The Government have promised to give further consideration to the problem.

They will, I feel certain, want to be very sure of their ground before they touch this prickly problem again,

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FELLOW travellera are on the troli again. Naturally,

they choose a time of crisis:

A resolution has appeared on the Parliamentary Order Paper which first expresses impeccable sentimenta regarding Western Union and then, quite neatly, seeks to forbid any military understanding or aliance with America.

In other words, the idea is a Western Union practically defenceless against the easterti dictatorship colossus, which has itself a chain of military alliances. with its satellites.

Mo

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TOSCOW will be delighted with this artful effort to

separate us from America,

Mr Bevin, on the other hand, must feel pretty slek

at this Intest attempt on the part of nominal supporters

Democratic planning

-will it fail?

OES nationalisation pay? This is a question on which, ns on no other, the people of Britain ure deeply divided. Many things have happened to bring the problem of the nationalised industries, now being run by the State, to the fore again recently,

The first thing in that the nation- alised industries have not been able to keep down their prices. Tho outstanding case in coal. Here, prices have been raised twice by fairly Jorge amounts since last autumn. The industry has been making big losses on is operations. The rea- cons for this state of affairs ard complex.

In seeking to discover if nationalisation pays, A. SHONFIELD ex- amines the record of the British coal indus- try under State owner- ship. The final ver- dict, he thinks, will be apparent later on, and The reminds us "that nationalisation may be pursued for reasons which are not purely economic."

But when we turn to the conl mines Jabour British

In

very bitter against the Coal Board. This, they said, was just the way private enterprise had treated them.

Private Enterprise people who same

lo sabotage Government foreign policy, above all at a time like the present,

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JOHN MACK, Labour M.P. for

Newcastle-under-Lyme, is .one

of the characters of the present. House.

He arrived on the Parliamentary

stanecs.

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Nationalisation was not giving them scene in somewhat unusual circum- a square deal.

Fortunately, the Waleawood re- bellion has not led to any more during the war, he was

He was actually unemployed whon,

clected serious trouble. But it is worth n

to unopposed

succeed Colonel we find one of the worst lot of attention because it in typical Wedgwood, who had become a peer.

records in the whole of of the kind of problem which na-

Industry: long years of tionalised industry

John came to Westminster with facing. and unemployment before the war, will have to face increasingly in the little cash but much ambition. short-time working, and a succes- future, Welfare versus production; Parliament was his oyster, and

control sion of strikes some of them the workers'

versus

planned he was determined to open it.

Hia vibrant voice and exuberant most embittered in British history efficiency: these are the amplified

personality captivated a charming Now, when the coal Industry was versions of the problem.

a successful taken over by the State, the miners

The opponents of nationalisation lady, who was also were less interested in production

tion maintain that # government-con-business woman, to whom he is now than in what one might term

the rolled Industry, at least in a de- happily married. что welfare aspect of the problem. They mocracy, is just not equipped to expected to be able to take a hand solve it. Under a Communist dieta. running the industry for their torship there would, be no trouble

mass of black Hair own benefit. And they have been dia at all. The men would just be TALL, with

and a swarthy face, 'Mack looks moved, and the trade unions which appointed over the past year with would be under direct government ntted for the lead in heavy drama. the small visible effect that BA- control would assist in penallsing

To say that he is fluent is tionalisation has had. There

His speech are them.

gross understatement, the same managers in the plts, and

is a tumbling cascade of words, speed. and' many of the

delivered at great The National Coal Board-the

enter- LTERNATIVELY, privale en-marked by a certain quaintness of body which runs the industry for the Socialists have on their list were there under private

Work- terprise operating to State ownership. Prise are right at the top.

а such

phrase. the Government has had to cope for conversion

would RO out of busi- with a much bigger wage bill than The Labour Party, itself, has also crs control of the industry seems plt

His travels abroad as an M.P ness, and no amount ak pro- have Included Loveral trips to its predecessors under private enter- been somewhat put out by a recent to be as far away as ever.

Mr It has instituted the five-day statement from its chairman, prise.

On the other side, you get

testing by the men would get anyong Bulgaria, where he reported having the to start it up again until it showed received a rapturous reception. week in the mines, and much of the Shinwell, criticising some of his own new owners of the mines the some prospect of a reasonable profit,

produced last party's arrangements in nationalising Government and they, naturally Under private enterprise, reorganisa extra coal that was year had to be paid for at overtime

Despite rumours to the contrary, industry without at or some tion. Finally.

sufficient prepo

prepara- enough, are anxious to make some lon to produce the

maximum however, John is no believer in the been rates. It has been known for some

there has

thing out of the mines. They had minor rebellion within the Labour not only want more coal-they are discriminating process ume that sharp differences

do efficiency fakes place through the Fuchrer principle, and there will be of bank no attempt to found a Muck dynasty arisen among the executives inside. Party's ranks, by a Mr Edwards, a getting that by and large; they want rupting the incompetent. And So in Bulgaria.

Labour Member of Parliament. who the collieries, which aro one of cialism, the anti-nationalisation Some of these executives were has expressed himself forcibly in a Britain's chief basic industries, to people say, has not yet found an taken over direct from private enter- whole series of public speeches show 4 profit. They have re- effective subsitute for bankruptcy. prise, when the mines were na- against nationalising steel. On the cognised that there is 1 large Because it puts welfare first, it has TOW let me pay tribute to a lad tionalised, and it was not altogether eve of the Labour Party's unmual backlog

Now let the among our opponenter of inbour bitterness ac- to go on subsiding the inefficient.

The problem thus resolves Itself namely young Tufton Beamish, who surprising that their approach to the conference, the Labour executives cumulated over the years, and this

into the old question. Is govern- represents Lewes, ture on all occasions with that or met and gave him notice to quit. has to be wiped out arst if pro-

ment planning possible under a đời He succeeded his father, "the dry- the trade union representatives on and he has now been expelled from ductivity is to be increased.

on the party.

mocracy? Can such a thing as witted rear-admiral, in the repre- the Board. Recently, these differences D Does- nationalisation--pay? Op-

successful democratie planning exist sentation of that_Sussex_constitu- came to a head: Sir Charles Reid, ponents of the principle, like

at all? The extreme right wingTM ency. the chief technical expert on the

Edwards, point to the contrast be Coal Board, suddenly resigned..

tween the recent production record

the Coal Board.

of the industry did not

Front-page News

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an

the supporters of pure capitallet

enterprise and the extreme left. What appeals to me about him the Communists, are agreed on this his courage, not his vlows.

He

their first big step was to in- traduce the five-day week.. But of coal and steel to show, that

one point: they both think democra-sticks his jaw out in determined.. does not. The output of deep-mined they at once found that this

coal, although it is

deal portant, welfare measure-for which the planning-in our senso of the fashion and hurle the most saucy good a THAT made front-page news

the miners had been agitating for word democratic must be a failure. charges and taunts at the Govern-· higher than last year,

not a long has Brilath, and probably did the managed to maintain the average the

on So that the present conflict over ment. time-had repercussions the production side.

Costs went nationalisation in Britain has more Board more damage than

of 4,000,000 tons a week that

thi other single

in order to raise out- than a purely local algnificance. It thing that

Government has asked for. In put, which was too low on happened to it so far.

the is the first large-scale attempt to run† ATE in July, I observe, he Not spite of the Introduction of new Ave-day week basis to keep Charles that: Sir

Bri- planning by democratic methods.

14 Bearded the Communists in their Reid wns machinery on a large scale, output tish Industry running at full ha democratie planning fail? My own they were masquerading as a peace Will the British experiment in den, or, rather, in a hall where particularly popular or even well- known person. But he was the per man-shift is still below prewar. they asked the miners to work

Steel, on the other hand, has been chairman

of a famous

extra half-day a week, and agreed view and here I can only spent council, committee,

pushing on from one production to pay them overlime which was set up by the Govern record to another.

rates fifty personally is that the outlook is He fold the assembled comrades

as it might appear, ment towards the end of the war, 1948 was originally set at 14,000,000 costs up further sill.

That put not so bleak percent, more-for this.

Coal was, after all, the most difficult come plain truths before the as- tonkhed Bill Rust, Dally Worker to inquire into the state of the Bri-n

tons-a twelve percent, increase on

case an old and inefficient Industry: edilor, acting og chairman, could tish coal industry. The report of

But the National Coal Board did it year. But

But the railways and the electricity: that committee, which was forth-t right, and ruthlessly laid bare all the first few months of this year extra costs for labour, it tried to causing real trouble. Perhaps we but decidedly enterprising.

all successful in raising output during cat pissively to the situation. industry, which have also been taken get the indignant audience to vote-

him into silence. While accepting the need for these over by the State, show no signs of Not conventional politics, perhaps, the failings and inefficiencies of mining methods in Britain, was that, the other day, its target was ext adopted as a sort of Bible by the pushed up to 14,500,000 tons much reduce costs elsewhere by reorganis- shall be able to see the answer more pro- clearly after the Government has Coat Board

it was set up the war.

more than was ever produced before in the mines, and increasing When

ductivity per man employed, But fuifled. the next step in ita pro- 18 months ago.

this mat with immediate resistance grammo

and nationalised nearly

steel, Now the author of the report has

Past History

from

the miners,

The

production which is an efficient and successful Issued a statement on his resigna-

plan came into direct conflict with industry.

last

forget. for

Its target.

had been 50

the welfare purpose that they saw American Method

in nationalisation There has been

any

wecks.

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and

Bicel - is to

the anti-

tion, which smites the Board hip and ERE, then, is the dramatic con- thigh for its technical deficiencies trust between private enter-

Sir prise over the past year-and-a-half.

and nationalisation. But a recent and glaring example of the THE American method when an Chartes has not pulled his punches. the

it stands comparison as

is conflict during the past few He has, however, tried to prevent not quite falc. One ought, At Waleswood, in Yorkshire, the powerful, like his resignation trom being con- before drawing any hasty con- Coal Board decided that the costs brenk it up forcibly into smaller verted into a political issue between clusions from it, to take into ac- of working a particular plt were units by means of

laws. The British method, the Conservatives and the Labour count the past history of the two excessive. They were losing large trust

by adding that, in spite of his

Industries.

sums of money on it each year. at the moment at least, la to tie the ticisms on the technical side, he

industry together into one large or- First of all, on the capital equip. The coal could, in

сабе, bo has got nothing against nationalisa- ment side, the steel Industry Ind won more economically by work-ganisation and hand it over to the The State. Both methods probably in- tion as such.. He still believes, he been fairly well modernised in the ing through other scams in

Hic volve some friction 'and losses of says, that nationalization

the neighbourhood. So they gave notice period between the wars, while, the necessity for the British coal indus- equipment in the mines had been that, they were going to close the ceny in the short run....

Nationalized industry, at any rate, try.

allowed to get sadly out of date.

pit, and

offered the displaced which has to adapt itself to an But, of course, you cannot keep an But more importantere, the steel ment-less convenient employment, ganisation, can only be judged pro- all, is the miners there alternative employ entirely new type of industrial or issue as vital as this out of politics. question labour. The Conservatives have made as Industry an excellent record, perhaps, and less well paid; but still perly over a longer period. It is much as they can out of Sir Charles extending over more than Bity an alternative job.

worth while remembering, tôo, when Reid's resignation, and they havò years; no strikes, decent wages, and What happened? The miners at judging it, that nationalisation-like pointed to it វា а

They warning good relations between the strong, Walsewood struck:

stayed the anti-trust laws--may be pursued against nationalising the steel steel-workers' union and the various down the pit for 10 days in all, and for reasons which are not purely Industry—the next "industry that managements.

refused to come up. They were economic.

was

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