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Dub.1 HjA Park. the variance in points of view but the ignorance of the agitation. Their position was that the printed which catered to this class of readers, eduand revolutionmuch tha prejudice which exists on both sidaa. end of useful was thst cated men and women acted as missionaries .among once DEADLOCK OF CAPITAL AND LABOR. them, aad from these beginnings of unrest has ary creed was adaptable to England although, The capitalist side of industry is selfish, grasp-- , having gsined their point, they would see tha there come the great upheaval of society in England ing and extremely conservative. which can only end when a political balance is was no actual and bloody revolution such as was The labor side it .ignorant of finance, of the machinery of comtearing at the vitals of the Russian people. struck between the employer and the employed. merce and foreign trade, and is The workingman was promised practically change in conditions for himself It is impossible within the limits of a short suspicious of the deas could bis motives of cnpitsl. Industry, demands a return on picture imagination to a everything to sat forth all the causes which have operated , and family that amounts to bring- - about the present state ef affairs or to sirable, and Russia was held up as an example of capital investment and a cost of production enabling revolution in "English economic methods ib equally competition in homo and foreign markets. Labor'" describe adequately the situation as it now exists; what could be done!' The Bolsheviks were indorsed true. In many was the red demands a comfortable wage, good houses, shorter' ir swung flag public said meeting,' idea been the has (o but perhaps enough convey 1918-1- 9 Such a change as is desired and it may be became s time of hours of work, education foc. ths young, and soooi that th present labor situation is not a matter of places, and the winter of no way' to 'get these except, by. force, not said desirable can only be brought about at the the moment only, and that the settlement of a single great depression for a people who had Just gone realising It war. terrible of a thst. there can be no employment unless , capital of the strain five the the on travail people years part strike is not going to set industry going on a smooth through expense of great seemed to everyone that law and order had gone by can operate at a profit and no foreign commerce ' and serious dislocation of industry. This is what path towards ultimate prosperity. It can be easily own unless England can compete in the markets of the realized that in this vast and uneasy crowd of wage the board, and that Germany, in pulling her has been going on in England for some years past. whole world. The workman lookr upon tfc. gevernmant the had about her house down ears, dragged and conditions yet workers demanding improved The war intervened to postpone serious outbreaks world with her into the maelstrom. not something extraneous to himself, upon government hardly knowing what they want or, if they do. of industrial unrest but at the same time the war By their actions, however, the Bolsheviks in money as something with which he' hae nothing' to knowing how to get it. is fertile ground in which the lias resulted beneficially to labor in that it disdo except to get as much of it as he can. He Socialist or even the extreme radical can labor with Russia defeated themselves in their world-wid- e closed to the workingman his real power and imwants his home and his wages free of all taxation Anglo-Saxo- n mind is The destruction. scheme of k results. and the in of the scheme tangible opened things portance on the theory that the other fellow must conservative and abhors excesses. When word o pay tba Socialism promises much to- - the wage earner. eyes of many of the more prosperous or ' . bills. , to rule out Bolshevik Russia what as of really oeople to the real injustice under which the BritI, has not yet been conclusively proved that it cannot What he does not understand is that the bulk o there waa a decided reaction in England. ish workingman hag labored for many years past. . give it to him. Conditions in the past have been meant, of government . Jncopie is derived not - from the , the supply of Bolshevik propaganda money for The labor situation in the United Kingdom toIntolerable, and a they cannot beT worse, the work- . la the days gone. by the English workingman rich but fronf the men, who must make a profit very i com-; England ceased to flow; The pa d ngen t s we re day it the result of mapy years accumulation 0f has been badly fed, wretchedly housed, badly clothed,- - ingman figures he has everything tb gain and noththe enterprise5 which JuT called 'upon to upon' bewas not their tb work. Jt long give up pay errors committed by the British government, Britwith alcohol. His children were ing vo lose In trying an experiment which holds out pelled arj the the untaxed citizen ja to enjoy. Never be-- ; wages be Bolshevism ; ceased in to a real threat fore is Engleaders. labor It ish employers aqd British such to work when nourished, promise, alluring very poorly young, given put .masses of Jh necessary to go backHfo feudal times to discover people been calledupo For some years past Socialism has been gaining Iand.evenif it was ever reat enough to be practically no education and were taught to know understand " of the complicated ma- is of some something considered. still There the origin of the present Antagonism between capk their station in life and pot to advocacy so; u"y aspire beyond it. The' ground among the British, f national ibance and of th governmenVof form of governmehtTbut tfiTiTTcbnnned'Wnery-otal and labor, the .governing class and the mass government was a monopoly in the hands of the so cietieshaVe held each advance made constantly striv- - a lca of commerce organization is and industry, noise tromiaU to more who make few than of the people. Class distinction came with the reg called governing or classes. The joor- - ing for an expansion of Influence. England has si- ad never before have the as a rich and whole, people the results achieve, lations of the overlord and the serf, and generations they been a country of TOe speech and there haa justified by e, casSes of the people were looked upon as of or lowly born,' realized. how little they poor, highly of British, have been taught either that they were , different material cast in different mold from ENGLAND'S 40,000 REVOLUTIONISTS', that' been no" check upon the tprifcties of tfiose who, ap- know about It The difficult protest Is now in op- born to be superior or to be inferior, that in of their -- betters. Exceptions to this rule on eitiier pealing to passion prejudice ahd justresentmentr eratTonbf attempting ioTeacha wbpIe nation all United was in There still the Kingdom, faet humanity was constructed of different kinds Bide but prove the reality of the conditions described, have spread abroad the doctrines of equality of in a day the theory and practice of finance end' Soof extreme considerable a however, body very of .clay.gccordingto tiie pottery in whjch they were wealth .for all, The middle, class manufacturer ..was a stolid,, re-- ,, revoindustry as carried on in a nation centuries bl9 ; the cialist njusb-popinion upon gnl f produced. .While it is' true that the liable individual who disliked change, resented inThere have also existed in England for many and which has dominated the world by the magnl-"- .' about There in are 40,000 lutionary. England today recent the of. of education, rapid spread spread terference with his business by men or government. years past the beginning of an even more radical revolutionists. About half of these are tude and boldness of its operations. Socialism and the tontacts and circumstances of and who believed that so long as the trade or the em- - movement. The anarchists of the Continent have in A London. large percentage of the 40,000 are not COMPROMISE THE. ONLY WAY.' OUT. war have jumbled the British social system to a pire waxed great and incidentally his own found London a safe- - place ii which to hold their prosperity is a small body of pure- English-borthere that but marked degree and opened the eyes of many to increased with it, that all was well with the world. To strike and to win or lose a strike is not thf ln faetr-nearlgatherings. every creed of violence ly English revolutionary individuals is true. These things never before dreamed of in their philosoGreat and small strikes occurred occasionally, but has had its large or small following among the alien as no fundamental" m. r w1,,. men nr active and intelligent.. They are fomenters phy, the beliefs and traditions of centuries can as a rule the wage earners were so unconscious of 1158 population of the United Kingdom and haa se- - of strife of all kinds. belief of eBtablshieLi ?"4vP . They take advantage of -Pnot be uprooted or even materially changed in a the fact of their real 8jeral that labor made little cured some influence among the British born. There j es i thati men strength a if 6. League the fore, and among every disturbance to come to short time.. The change must be slow In the very f wU.g ia one thing always to be taken into account in es- headway towards improving its condition. arbitration ! of the way oblot idle dissatisfied a or can of worker, they nature of things even when assisted by the It muct also be realized that the majority of timating these forces, and that is their strong ' .. me principle must apply , , How. tain . .. much for of advocate. what ' , hearing they infiuences of a great war. the ' British workingman dir: they-orgsnrzAtion, lheir sincerity of parposc.heir lntelii- RISE OF LLOYD GEORGE. Their claims based wanted.' were Upreally always and their efficient team genee, their future -Eir this sense isuntrue.' probable that many than he has had in tha pasti The workingman ia not The background of all labor troubles in the on wages or hours whereas what they needed more work. nglishmen have tolerated revolutionary talk simply going to get 11 he is United Kingdom for years past has been class war. than shorter hours and increased wages was a betRUSSIA AND BRITISH REVOLUTIONARY for or perhaps expects, t articulateeir discontCT in Un. but he is going to haveasking fw;uM ter standard of living and equal opportunity for Xtie fight itself on the part of labor hae been a living wage, good house guage which seemed strong enough to express their to live their children with those more fortunately placed. to improve the condition of the workingman. .On in, education for hia children and a 'fair When the revolution first came about in Russsla feelings, and also because they did not rally undershoar in tha battle qf life, and he win make himself, the part of the employer and the government beThe theory that education was bad, for .the work would mean it was given by a majority ef the British stand or' realize whaif a social revolution hind him it haa been a strong' to maintain the very disagreeable to the power that be until he ingman had a large following in England and still ' in Own ; .their country. ' of the revolution success initial and the 1 order was them. put the old is jieople That so gets the and order.. existing its has Heeoly devotees, giving ingrained f existing of in forces The workers the are new into life ia body first English eforganized sympathetic great th aides will have to yield poin& to the feudalism in the British mind that many of the workway before the assaults of modern thought and the British Isles. The revolutionary element, small favor of better conditions for themselves and their ether for neither can have fort was strikingly shown before the war in the adingmen themselves deplore the time spent by their everything its own wayi families secondly, in favor of a Labor government, The wage-earnthough It was, went to work with vigpr to take adia more firmly seated in the sadvent of Mr. David Lloyd George into a place Of pochildren at school and any efforts "their children may in the belief that only through the control of the dle than ever before and Is on even terms with capiMoney was forthcoming vantage of the situation litical power. His name was then anathema to make to rise above their surroundings. in via and from Russia Stockholm government will they be able to secure what they tal in this controversy ever a division of the profits quite large aunts, .he old order. He was considered a firebrand, a . . DISCONTENT, UNREST, UPHEAVAL, - for thai is what It all. s mounts ti. , by Christinas time in 1918 the revolutionary move- -. want .demagogue. - charlatan and a grave danger to the " tnent had taken on an air of prosperity which waa in unionism too not As trade lir a broad way their demands are justified. much No, the British workingman is not a revoluEngland it assumed slate. He led the extremists and it ia grew to say that the hews of hi assassination would, , a political character. The apparent purpose of the alarming to those who did not understand its true Whether they would secure their fulfilment by tionist,. but he is willing to use the propaganda of inwardness, and disturbing to those who were at-- - having a Laboi government is another matter. union was to fight capital rather than to improve revjlu"oa as a s"d he has the court ra ant have been received with - relief by many people-if v In ihe refld.' ftoweVef,the govefnmentwh)ch ' the Spirit to start ona if there is no other way of , theW6rker. In the past few years," tempting is lad radial thought Slong line more the conditkrir-ot less safe for, the nation.- will come a a result of the war will be a comproThe war made him the savior of the nation. securing something within a reasonable distance eL there has. come about a great increase in th dis- what he thinks he is entitled to. conditions were The old coterie- of statesmen who' formerlygovWhile nof indorsing the revolutionary idea, the mise between the moderate conservative and the exsatisfaction with which existing J. D. WHELPLET. extreme Socialists among the .leaders and in the' treme radical elements. The difficulty which now emed England to suit themselves have one by otie beheld. With even the faulty 'educational system. - face not in labor is fts Edward MarshalL) with to were taka only 1919, Some By dealings, into them of more rank became or were (.Copyright, retirement industry labor and file of general, newspapers passed obscurity. advantage prompt knowledge still cling to government portfolio, but they are tolerated rather than supported by the masses of the people. England is today a government and that one man is David George. When the trades union committee Went into consultation with the British government Sept. 28 last in an effort to terminate the railway strike, it was Mr. Lloyd George who met them and he was the government; no one else was needed or wanted. The shadowy figures which haunted the outer chambers during the conferences were members of the cabinet, presumably of the real governing body of the country, but theywcre called in or sent ouC at the will and pleasure of the wonderful little man from Wales, the former anarchist." to whom all conservative elements in society are looking to save the country from anarchy. The present generation of Englishmen is reaping the whirlwind sown by those who in other years patronised the workingman. If is a case of the sins of the fathers being visited on the children, and these were vast sins with incalculable consequences. ERRORS OF THE PAST ONDON, Oct. 29. The native born British workman is not a revolutionary in the sense the word would be used in Russia, but that he is now determined to secure a X ff one-ma- well-to-d- n , ar-tic- le ... Al-b- over-suppli- ani land-ownin- j out-and-o- ut V ....... n, - ?, W!"1 com-peilf- rfknowhftr S Iti. e' God-spe- er . -- j , , n w -- 4 j |