Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-05-29 | Page 30 | Parliamentary Democracy a Myth, Says Labor Outlook

m Parliamentary Democracy I A Myth Says Labor Outlook I BY ROBERT J J. J I Universal Service Staff Correspondent I LONDON May 28 England's 28 England's Reds have become pale pink since the colI collapse collapse col col- col- col I lapse ot I f the he general strike plan which the tho triple alliance formulated i In n April Take the case of Robert Williams He lie used to be regarded as bright ver ver- milion With booming voice and impassioned impassioned impassioned im im- im- im gesture he preached the proletarian revolution up and down the country he seemed to be cast for forthe forthe the part of Danton But when he was brought to the fence he would not jump it Bob Williams is the secretary of I the powerful Transport federation one of the constituents of the triple alli I ance He was als also a leading member of the communist party Now he is no longer a member When his organization organization organization organ organ- failed to strike in sympathy with the miners the communist party extremists expelled him b because cause he did I not scale up to the Lenin standard who the communist party's big Peri Perhaps lEader is 8 he now OW will wm nobody body emerge seems dramatically to know as a new V genius when the hour of ot lution nt revolution revolution revo- revo wl strikes But he will wm not ble resemble resemble Ra r Ramsay Williams Macdonald n nor rJ- rJ J. J H H. Thomas nor nor Arthur Henderson Hen Hen- derson nor J J. R R. R Clynes dynes all of whom are stigmatized d by the mysterious Britain inner committee ft of the communists of as little bourgeois The eclipse of Williams is noteworthy noteworthy note note- worthy mainly because he he has just a book to prove that he is a tru true n prophet of f revolution It is titled enl entitled entitled en- en The he New l Labor Outlook I Parliamentary l Democracy wi-if wi he writes is a myth exPloded S and 51 the developments by the war warthe the war ar arising sins out of When it comes the revolutionary situation will be the S result of the partial par par- or complete sg collapse of the present order of society It may emerge from the acute unemployment un un- un- un i employment crisis it may come ome after the captains of industry attempt successfully successfully suc suc- or unsuccessfully to take take ad ad of ot the mass of ot unemployed unemployed-to to H Nl force down the wages of those who r main in employment Mass action will produce gen gener strike organizations on the line workers' workers councils this will chalice challe existing political organization The labor party may have par power thrust upon them i 1 such a crisis but unless and until t th have absolute economic and control vested tested in their hands this i ibe W Sv be of no more avail than the Keren regime in Russia or the Nos government of German Germa Insistently will come the demand power to the workmen's councils If the governing classes ho he r f marks are able to weather the pres preset storm it will wilt only bo for a time W wl f they will be confronted with even more furious