Show British Labor L bor and nd Capital C pit l on Verge lel e of or War Val Fierce Bailie allie is Surely Coming B tho Forces of or Labor and tho Groat Vested Interests of or John Bull Parliament the Monopoly and Ownership to Both B Attacked Special Correspondence I Feb 22 tabor hor ban hl LONDON thrown down the gantlet to Call capi capital tal ta In England 1 Political lender leaden who are anything hut but alarmists admit that a II fierce nerce struggle l Is about ti tibe be bo In tho house bouse of at com COlli commons mons monn tight right of or vested Interests and I private ownership of every description against and aull public con control control On the one side are the thc great landed monopolies holding between them liter literally ally nil millions of acres of ot I soil soli thu tho great rent railway systems controlling millions of at dollars and ramifying through crry section of at the tho country the owners of the coal mines the can canals canals als water KOS s companies In fact every ever source of wealth In the hands handl I of lit private AM 11 England Is Isone Isono ono one of the richest countries cOlin tries In tho world practically untold wealth will ex exert exert ert Its uttermost power to preserve Its It existence On th j other othel fide are oro tho forces of ot labor lined up UIl generated as aa they never hale bae been beell before perhaps In thi history of oe the world Hacked by mil lions of f the working classes represent representing sent ing the tho unions un lOlls throughout tho country led by hy skilled parliamentarians controlling at the tho samo time monetary power to them to fight without feeling the tho exi exl exigencies of 01 want such ns would be their fate tute In strikes and lockout thu th forces of ot labor are ure not to be he Ignored The new lIew Liberal government hn al nl already ready committed Itself to several of ot the th Important planks plank of at the labor parties purtle combined Whether tho house of or lords will go 0 down under the of at till the Incessant bombardment to which It will willbe be subjected remains to be seen VIEWS OF or Il In order to give an authoritative fore foro forecast cast of the tho labor program In the next parliament Iho writer recently obtained tho of at the most prominent lead leaders ers era Philip Ih II Snowden the of the tho I an nil some have called him J or organizer oC or the of at labor and oth others ers er erThe The life of ot most of men mell rend read Ilko JIO pages Ings from a rl sensational ro 10 romance mance Of or the 50 representatives l of labor who will sit lt In the parlia parliament ment nil but bill halt hale a n dozen were horny horn banded sons Bonn of ot toll stonemason coal mine stoker factory hand printer newsboy engine driver lock dock laborer these theBe art are the Ih various callings from which they the have risen by a combination of or physical cal nil brain The most outspoken among amon tho lead leaders ers is tl Hurdle who began life lite In Inn n coal mine Millions In thin country he said lOa III are In poverty millions more oro but ono 10 1 moved from It While tho th useful toll and puffer the tho oner of land i ica ca III I ire are heaping up 1111 untold wealth Cheat accumulations of wealth our liberties control the great London organs of oC tho 8 lead 11 1111 Into wars abroad and the th wells of or public life lite at nt home borne and capital capitalism ism are th upper r mill nether millstones milia tones between h len which the life lite of the common people is being ground n t dust For the o e I have hn I taken on tin active Interest t Jnnny years In building up II an 1111 Ind Labor party and nd dl from any merely political The object of the Labor party la Ie to create a driving in politic which will overcome the of In III regard to 10 reforms reform und give gle the nation i Iron Krong ron true lead on tho th pith that makes for tor national righteousness KIm Such Burh Is Hurdles platform and that It h I not chimerical Is attested by fact that his Labor party hoe has over 0 branch branches es l and numbers among Its 1111 workers thousands of ot members The declared object of or thin organization Is III to form torm forman an nil Industrial Indu commonwealth founded on tho socialization of at land and cap capital ital The central ce organizing force torce of tho Iho whole movement the labor Inbur representation committed created by Macdonald has avow 4 I I I i J 1 RAMSEY MACDONALD Secretary SC of or Iho Labor and Chief of fIr the tabor Purt rd I n ono of ot Its main objects ob oh obtaining for fOt the workers the full results of at their labor by h tho overthrow of lit tho present competitive system of at capital capitalism capitalIsm ism the Institution In of n 0 system of ot public of ot nil all tho means of ot production dl and ex exchange change This resolution was adopted at nt tho last l st conference of the labor rep just tho general which has hns returned f so o many members to parliament AH As tho labor representation commit committee tee tco Is the practical central governing body the general staff starr as It wore of the whole Labor party Its history could coul not be hr omitted oven from n brief sketch of at this wonderful organization Which has astonished not only Eng land hut but practically tho 1111 world by b Its sudden leap leall Into prominence The prime movers In the tho labor rep reI o aro A Hender Henderson son Its III chairman and J Ram oy Mac The L I 11 n 0 t as ns It has hn been nicknamed N Is composed of ot members from trades trades councils Socialist societies och lIEs and so societies O Orielle It was brought Into existence for tho purpose of ot electing Labor members to parliament It has not only 1 elected elect l many hut but It guarantees each member a n near ear while In parliament Otherwise many of ot the tho members could not retain their seats being mostly men drawn from tho laboring OI ST LA DOR UNION The Tho I II n 0 C l I today tola Iho strong strongest est eRt labor In tho It fonts over actual members and Its status built up as nH It Is II by contributions from various and aull Individuals at present enables It In to control not lc s than a n year ar mini now that Us lis candidates have nearly nil all won out will doubtless ho hu greatly augmented E gery ry candidate supported by tho thoI I H 0 C goes In under a 1 agreement to with a 1 distinct group In and nut to own tolly to tiny any section of political ion 1011 other othel than that of ot labor Though hou tho Independent ot tabor party and other organizations which sent tHen men to parliament recently pro sup Slip supposed posed not to tobo bo under tho L It H C CIt CIt It la 10 tacitly admitted that tills powerful committee will through Us strong Atron group In tho houp hOlls dictate tho labor la or policy All other labor members whether belonging to the tho I R H C or not will Join force with that organization In III nil all issues ami throw In their lot with any party whether Irish Liberal or even Conservative which h Moms best bost to foster tho Interests of t labor It Is II generally believed how however ever that tho Liberals and Labor members will work well together chiefly b In order to not fot Into parliament tho Liberals com Indefinitely to so 10 I many of the tho which the Labor t party aro upholding j i HAS liAS POLICY The Labor representation committee cor has already formulated Its policy and begun work and whan parliament con convene enes vene It will come out for tor tho IIII following Taxation a allon of ot land alucs government to work for tor tho unemployed Improvement of ot 1 housing conditions of tho working classes extension of ot municipal trading to Oro Insurance tho coal supply milk and even to the making of i bread arbitration of ot trades deputes j j compensation of workmen Injured by establishment of pensions for tor aged who have passed the limit the right of nil all adults to vote ote whether men or women abolition I of ot chilI child labor and sweating In fac factories tories Insistence on all nn 1111 day dO throughout England and generally the of ot tho oppressions of at capital capitalIsm Ism Halme Macdonald when Mil Interview Interviewed ed IJ called attention to the fact that while England Inglan Is III probably the richest country countr In the worM world today toola the condi condition tion of or laboring la and working classes Is growing worse Instead of better and that material progress has not brought at relief to the poor only adding to the wealth of the few tew Tho holding of ot tracts tract of ot land In England I by bya b ba I a few rew landlords he hp Mid Is III to be he broken up both hoth by b e as In Ire Ireland Ir Irland land and by hy milking making these the e very ery rich pay pa such uch heavy hea taxes that they thc cannot aNord to keep millions of acres of If land out of ot use as at present Hun lIun Hundreds of ot thousands of at acres both In tho country and In city suburbs are In the tho hands halll of land speculators who aro holding It until Improvements male made by bythe b the people themselves shall bring these vacant lands Into III to demand ami then theu the wealthy will their harvest WILL WUL TAX TX VACANT LAND The labor committee proposes es to make taxes on all vacant land so heavy he that holders will have to let It go for Improvement The reduction of at atthe the cost of ot land to tn persons por who wish to buy owing to go ISO much moro mOl land being brought Into the market will open up the th building trade tralle once moro n 11 ft No on 11 thousands of ot builders work Up VII to this time many mallY of ot the unemployed ed havo been out of ot work owing to there being no land for build builders ers tro to put up hou s oti on The nationalization of oe the railways and other sources nf 01 Industry will of at I course to accomplished by h regular pur purchase chase from present owners In the thc famo manner as the tho private water companies wore recently brought out by b th tho Met Iet Metropolitan water board of London The same principles will apply to coal roat coalmines mines othor athor forms torms of trailing h various private now COli t for all these objects will be In Into parliament and If the Liberal party does llos not support these measures the labor organizations will withdraw their from the Liber Ilber Liberals als and foreD them out of at parliament lender of the tho L I H C Cand and chief organizer of the entire labor movement has hns had bad an nn fa He lie to I ondon from Ios le mouth Scotland where he was born In He lie became In uncial problems by hy reading Henry It lIry aon e and Poverty and In to an t In tn mat matr r nt when about W I years old He 11 to at lit the OlEo age of 21 I atil begun began life envelopes envelope at st I till rate fill of or cents a thousand He managed to obtain the tho ot I clerk In a 11 small at nt a 11 bira living wage but being a II very Iery hard worker he attended night at collage Hl ilia toll brought on a afir fir Ions breakdown ami for tor some months month lie he was Willi a n physical wreck I INTO After recovery recover of bin hb health he ho became secretary to t Thomas Lough who enter 1 parliament for lor a London borough borouSh This Thill lac nr t entrance Into political life 1 He lie remain remained ed I with Mr Ill lAugh Lough up UI to the end of at 1891 and at panic Joined several societies Among mong other In tt bo ho a u member of ot the tho Womans Industrial In council ha Miss III Gladstone Its for tor foreign eign secretary whom ho mauled In I mG He acquired a 11 wonderful knowledge of ot parliamentary dUIe and It Is la th It Intimate acquaintance which ban hilI made him so Invaluable nn organizer or to 10 the tho E H It C e In III Ml when that body grow grall out of the Trades congress 1 b Its frEt feore tary lur Macdonald has haB done to Im 1111 labor and has baa his hili various arlous organizations with parties abroad Within tho next n t year y I or two tIll sicela embassies wilt bo bl gent out from the L II H C to study lu trade condi condition tion all ull over oer the and to profit by hy conditions It Ions In other lands It Is conceded on n all 1111 sides that tha t to Man Is III mainly due the II of or thi movement III 0 III t Ills book bool Socialist ami Society has IllS Imd a 1 largo larJ demand during the late election I when I k of labor candidates Is a Il mental between bet them th 11 and with dynamite bombs l stick slick ing III out of ot their pockets As AI a matter of ot fact most of ot the labor members re recently elected art are anything In but bill uncouth In Philip M P Cor looks Ilko an Intellectual American lawyer lawor well and Is a II orator began beian life 1 In the rill civil service Hervle He lie lias Imen an nn labor lender for more mora than 13 IllS HIS IS MOST Of men whose rise tram from till ranks of labor have boen Iwen romantic probably I John Macpherson M I p for tor Preston takes the Ula lead He lie begun life le ns a 1 cab cabIn In III boy ho at n t IS 18 ho he became b n stoel and nt at 21 founded the Steel Stel 1 came In existence In ISM ISn He lie was a n born leader and his bin rl o was WM very yer rapid Ho 10 displayed such markel ability that his organization In oidor to equip him for tor the battle battlo of or labor against capital sent him to Oxford to 10 take special courses of study In political economy and kindred sciences and by hJ graduated l from Buskin This college by h the tho way In Is II a n port wort of ar train school for future tabor M 11 Ps It ItI I 18 Incorporated by b the board of ot trade and Is managed by representatives of I the tho trades unions the tho Amalgamated Society of l t Engineers and the tho London Trades Council It has hns already turn 1 out students who took active n Io part partIn pa rt rtIn In the during the recent Labor campaign and were n l credit to their university Persons who vho Imagine labor has haB approached tho battle capital with crude moth oils of ot will b bYer very Yer much mistaken In Its It captains skillful parliamentarians and lender leaders of ot otmen men have ha Ie been chosen eho cn all tho pres present present ent phalanx of lighters oro using the tho most mOAt methods method of ot social war warfare fare Astonishment has hns been heen mani manifested at nt the tho wonderful achievements of the tho Labor party but when It Is said gald that work of or preparation education has hn been heln going on for tor the past quarter of nt n a century and particularly within tho last In t live years surprise need not bo expressed INTO IorO IllS HIS OWN O Will Thome Is III another remarkable character who has come corne Into his bis own from direst poverty He tic became a toll toil toller toiler er at seven een years old at al Birmingham In a brick field Ho to tn support a n mother and three orphan brother his father having died hen the boy 00 Will nine Ho 10 entered a n steel Stel mill then Ihen a coke plant then us rill laborer working In the ileitis In summer and the tho gUll gas works In winter H He was always a n discontent and from taking part In which at nt fir t failed lost lo t employment HA set Ift settled tied In Vet Hum Ham on un of poorest succeeded In or organizing the th ga of or that sec section tion the unskilled nf or London la In Their w ro held helo In open lot near the gt IrU yorks 11 formed men Into a union they th fought a 8 strike for an lay day and won labor union w s son on purely purly HOI lints their to light capital to pro promote mote i nation fiction and to tu m collective ownership Thome a member of oC the Hum council and e deputy He lie represents the extreme tabor lAbor element ment Jealous of capital 1111 their rights by b sheer sll r free force of It organization The same life lite attaches to t many mall of tho other representation nta tion who will take their r HH tH an l M Ps in III the next ull or orne orn ne n nil |