| Show ENGLAND PUTS WORRY PUTS J WORRY ASIDE I FOR CRICKET Publisher Blames Staff for Calling America Uncle Shylock By hg A 0 O G England's Greatest Liberal Ed or na Radio DI Dispatch to The Standard E 1 Copyright 1926 Consolidated Press AssocIation LONDON Aug IC 14 1 It If the ISO American visitors said to be beIn bein In London at present judged judge Englishmen by appearances they tho would be bo justified In ImaginIng themselves in tho the midst of ot an insane Insano people The Tho country Is passing through the greatest Industrial crisis In th hIstory of ot the modern world and world an London apparently Is III thinking and talking ot of o nothing but the game ot of cricket The final test tet match between and Australia began In Inthe inthe the oval Saturday amid unparalleled unparalleled unparalleled scenes ot of excitement The rhe I four previous matches ended In in- in indecisively Indecisively decisively but this one Is to be bv played to a finish It If it takes takee nil all summer and the country Is Ing lug with expectation of ot recover recover- recoverIng Ing Ing the tho championship from th the Australians who have 1 held beld It since before the tiro war CRICKET BIG JUG TOPIC For one comment on the prospects pros- pros peels cds of ot settlement ot of o the coal cOlli strike strIke one hears ten thousand on the prospects of ot the cricket match matei But Dut behind the apparent Irrel- Irrel Irrelevance evanco- evanco evance which disguises the public anxiety serious opinion now b i fixed on the mighty struggle which Is visibly drawing toward a close The miners miner n In voting down the terms of ot settlement proposed by bythe bythe the bishops have lave cleared the he air lost all public sympathy and paved the way for tor Inevitable de- de defeat teat feat Even A J Cook secretary ot of the Miners Miners Federation now practicallY admits that the battle battlo Is lost and Is seeking to undo the th mischief of ot which he is 13 the chief el author In order to save the te federation fed fed- 1 oration from complete disruption In Inlew view lew of ot the large minority favoring oring the tho tho bishops terms a stampede stam- stam stampede pede back bark to the mines Is regard regard- regarded regarded ed cd as certain certain- In the near future LOSE IoSE OSE CONFIDENCE Relations ot of the the- mIners minere leaders and the tho leaders of ot the general body of ot trade unionism trade unionism have baye have roach roach- ed cd a 0 phase of ot extraordinary bIt and this feeling is by disillusionment nt the ranks rank of ot the miners who ar r breaking into factions I and nd losing confidence In their leaders I Repercussions ot of the conflict on the position of ot the the trade trado un- un unIons unions unIons Ions generally are bound to be ot of the the most far tar reach In character For apart from the fact tact that the struggle leaves the unions largely bankrupt the effect of ot the disastrous disastrous disastrous trous failure of Secretary Cool Cooks Cook's s 's policy polley on the minds of ot the work worle- workIng working ing classes threatens to create wIdespread distrust of ot trade un- un unIonIsm Itself Havelock Wilson leader lealer of ot the Seamans union whose whoso personal hostility to the general strike kept the seamen out of ot that phase ot of the struggle has Issued a llon against the extremist policy whIch he says gays has made trado trade un- un unIonism un unionism bankrupt Ho lie declares the mischief was due to the extremIsts extremist extremists attempt to convert comert the move move- movement movement movement ment Into an nn Instrument tor for po- po political po political revolutionary ends and appeals ap- ap peals to labor to overthrow the extremIsts and confine contine Its efforts to Improvement of o economic conditions con con- con conditions dillons This declaration foreshadows a adeep adeep deep delp fissure In tho the ranks of ot labor for tor it t f the failure of ot the miners proves as ns complete as ns now seems certaIn the prestige of ot the ex- ex exI extremists ex extremists I so long dominant will vanIsh throughout the labor move move- movement movement movement ment and the tho counsels of ot more moderate leaders will recover au- au authority authority au authority Broadly speaking the struggle has not been the mIners and the tho mine owners but be- be between between be between tween Secretary Cooks Cook's Ideals and the Ideals of ot J II Thomas head ot of the Railway Workers union for tor control of ot the future policy polley of Or- Or Organized organized or organized labor The cost to the nation of ot d de- de defeating de defeating tenting Cook will not be bo less than the cost of ot the war Doer Doer Boer war but the effects will will be bo lasting The writer recently referred to I the outrageous campaign conduct conduct- conducted conducted e ed 1 In the columns of ot tho the Bother Rother- mere mere press against America under and aud the title of ot Uncle Undo Shylock pointed out that whatever were the feeling of ot the English people regarding re- re regarding re regarding garding the debt question que llon public opInIon resented this vulgar abuse of ot a friendly nation This week all the world Is hilarious over the por- por portentous portentous por portentous rebuke Addre addressed Sed from AmerIca by Lor Lord 1 and published by the Dally Mall Mail and other Rol journals dis- dis disowning dis disowning owning o In any w way y responsibility for tor the attacks throwing all nil the tha odium on his e editorial staff start and butterIng the American people almost as profusely ly as hl his papers have bespattered them then with mud ud |
