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Show LABOR LEADERS ARE mam fight Austerlitz, or Waterloo, of British Unions, Looms Close at Hand. LULL PRECEDES STORM Bill Depriving Labor of Power to Strike Will End Truce. BY PHILLIP EVERETT. special Cable to The Tribune LONDON, Aug. 24 Realising that all the recent strikes with their enormous cost of money and suffering have brought the worklngmen of England no step farther, far-ther, the labor leaders here are about to change their tactics and aro preparing for one great, decisive battle, which will be Austerllt-s or Waterloo to organised labor ln Great Britain. In the following umiiiuua woras ino uauy neraia, xno London mouthpiece of labor, lays down the proposed tactics of the party: Capital Is perfectly aware that labor cannot reorganlxe Its forces whilst certain sections of labor are continually con-tinually engaged ln Industrial warfare war-fare and so the guerrilla system of beating the unions one by one and section by section la maintained. rftpital will not allow any breathing time. It Is intent upon defeating all sections, and thus forcing them Into submission. For labor organizations have very seriously menaced the capital capi-tal interests. Unions have become militant, and by playing Into the hands of the capitalist army are assisting as-sisting to deplete funds and bring about their own downfall. One of the elementary principles of war demands that an army that has been beaten all along the line, whose forces have been decimated, should establish an armistice, nnd not continue to fight against overwhelming overwhelm-ing odds Should Choose Time. Let us be sensible, brothers, for It Is upelesg to continue the fight under such hopeless and unequal conditions. We should call a truce ani take a well-earned rest; strengthen strength-en our forces, replenish our depleted war chests and reorganize our plan of campaign. We should endure for a time the injustices and persecutions they will subject un to without protest, and not fight until we are prepared to do so We will choose the day of battle, bat-tle, and then we can strike, end strike hard: with all the might of our organized power, and so win a victory final and decisive that shall avenge all past defeats. Forewarned Is forearmed, and we have been warned by our enemy that thev are going to adopt a change of tactics resort to strategy and trick us again if posslhle. The capitalist government has announced an-nounced Its Intention to Introduce legislation next year that will. In the words of Lloyd -George, ''prevent these great trade disputes developing develop-ing up to a point that will drlvo trade away It Is no use Imagining that It can bo done hy mere agreement agree-ment and consolidation and permission. permis-sion. I am sure It cannot. The executive must he earned with more formidable powers." Act Against Striking. The right of labor to strike Is to be declared Illegal hy act of parliament. That Is the true meaning of the chancellor's statement. The date of the introduction of tho bill to deprive labor of Its power to strike must also be the date fixed to conclude the truce and commence the general battle. You, hrothers, have from six to eight months ln which to prepare your forces. It Is useless to fiisnute with employers who will not listen to the voice of reason. Sec to It, brothers, thai you are prepared to f 1 tr Ii t for your greatest great-est weapon the vtlit to strike. Call your genera conference to th rank and file at. once, or otherwise be prepared to submit peacefully to the despots who will work their own sweet will on yon. and who will scourge you and sweat you to the ftent that v'l will have deserved Prospects are therefore that Kngland is now to enjoj, a spell of Industrial peace, but this is to be only the calm that precedes pre-cedes the outburst of a storm the like Of which the country has never seen |
