CAPITAL AND LABOUR.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 15, 12 October 1907, Page 5

CAPITAL AND LABOUR.

"VILEST OF CREEDS." DUKE ON SOCIALISM. A CONSERVATIVE CAMPAIGN. By Telegraph.—Association.—Copyright. Lonflon, October 10. Tbo Dnko of Rutland, apropos of the Kirkdalo (Liverpool) oloction, urgos Unionists to actively fight Socialism, " that vilest of political creeds." The leaders of the party ought to take off tlio gloves and show the hopeless dangers awaiting tho country contenancing its loathsome objects of undiluted atheism, theft, and immorality. When Englishmen rccognisod that tho Liberals wero only kept in power, by a party of Socialists; they Would make a clearance of the Graysons and Hardies." : Tho 'National Union Conservative Associations are equipping twenty vans to • accommodate*, peripatetic trade union speakers, who will address working men in the streots and at tho mill gates,, and distribute literature dosigned to counteract Socialism.,. .... RAILWAYMAN'S DEMANDS. > London, October 10. Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald, Labour M:P. for Leicester, suggests that if a settlemont of tho' railways troublo, as between tho companies and the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, is impossiblo,' Sir Henry CampbollBannorman ought to summon a spccial session of Parliament iu Order to avert a striko, and.forco tho directors to submit'to arbitration.

A noto of war against Socialism was sounded tlio other day by Lord Balfour of Burleigh (Conservative), who, as President of tho British Constitutional Association, appealed to all political parties who wish to uphold 'individual liberty to join tho Association in its work of combating tho political-Social-ist.', Side by. side with this non-party movement, it would appear that tho Conservative Associations' are endeavouring to. drive .a wedge between Socialists and trade unions. . Tho possibility of 'success in this direction was indicated by the proceedings of tho Socialist Congress at Stuttgart, whoro there was much wrangling between' union and Socialist delegates. Within the British' delegation itself, the Socialists quarrelled with the unioiiists, and Mi 1 . Ramsay Macdonald was hard put to it to secure any degree of co-operation. _ A resolution . was, however, passed inviting all unions to maintain relations with thd International Bureau. An article 011 tho subject from the pon of Mr. Macdonald appears in another column. The Duke of Eutland, who sat in the .Conservative'interest in tho House of Commons from 1888 to 1895, succeeded to the,'title in 1300. In. the 'eighties ho was private secretary to tho Marquis, o'.' Salisbury. He, no doubt, takes the' Kirkdale election as his text, because in that caso tho Executive of the Liberal party adopted tho peculiar attitude of refusing to officially 'support Mr/ Hill- (Labour) against the successful Unionist : ciindidato (Mr. M'Arthur),, i becauso of Mf. . Bill's Socialistic, views; at the samo timo the Executive passed a . resolution expressing tho hope' that Liberal electors would support Mr. Hill.> Predictions havo been freely made that the Liberals will be split by tho Socialist wing as the Unionists waro by tho tariff -question. Tho Duke's indictment of "Athoisin": and "immorality" l is- possibly aimed specially at tho, recently, reported utterances of. tho now Socialist member for Colno Valley, Mr. Grayson, who, said l after'"' his : election"Wo' stand, for; human equality, sexual equality, for the. abolition of sex ties.,l-thank .the womto for what thoy havo done to - keep tho Liberal out." 'Again, on August 24, Mr., Grayson is reported : as follows:— Some people had said .'Mr. Grayson, will you toll us what is your religion?''and' his reply was: 'My religion is Socialism. It is the only religion. I-Ie asked them to think of Socialism as somothing. that inspired them all with a real practical: love for their fellow-meni a-love that -should last,, that should-bo woven into the texture of our modern and permeate our common life."

A SOCIALISTIC UNION. APPROVES STATE OWNERSHIP ; " OP RAILWAYS. ■■ MR. 'BELL DISSENTS. . PREFERENCE TO FOREIGNERS.' ; "' (Roc. Oct. 11, 11.25 p.m.). ' London, October 11. A congress of the Amalgamated Railway, Servants' Society adopted, with two dissentients, a recommendation that there should be State control of railways. , Mr. R. Bell, Labour M.P., and Secretary l of tho Society, declared that whon nationalisation came thousands of railway mon would suffer because there, would bo much surplus labour following upon the removal of tho presont competition between the companies. He concluded by championing, tho interests of private investors in railways, and by making a hold stand againßt soino confiscation ideas, now- current. , Subsequently the congress altered the resolution to read a "State ownership" instead of "State control." The congress also adopted a resolution condemning the tendency among' railways to. penaliso British trado by giving preferential' rates to : foreign producers and manufacturers. Apparently nothing could bo more Socialistic than the railwayman's Union's presont demand for State ownership of lines, and tho recent, decision of' tho* Miners' Federation in favour of tho nationalisation of mines.