LABOUR PARTY AND ITS AIMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 906, 27 August 1910, Page 5

LABOUR PARTY AND ITS AIMS.

" CURSE OF COMPROMISE."

PATIENT PLODDING INSTEAD OF

NOISE NEEDED,

RATE OF PROGRESS TOO SLOW. 'Bj Teleßrapß—l'rcsa (Rec. August 25, 9.55 a.m.) London, August 26. . A majority of tho members of tho council of tho Independent Labour party have issued a manifesto in reply to that published by four members of the party executive at the end of July. The former document declared that the 1 party had succumbed to the "curse of compromise," and had been captured for a revisionist policy by the astuteness of Mr. Ramsay Macdohald (Labour member for Leicester). In the manifesto now circulated, the council describes the Labour party as the fruit of an honest and honourable alliance between tho trades' unionists and the Socialists. While some of the allied bodies may:bo less advanced than others, the advantages of united action arc 'overwhelming, and the alliance is the greatest thing done in Great Britain towards federating the -workers and enabling them to. use their political power to secure economic redress. . Socialism, the manifesto continues, has made big strides, and is inpro definitely constructive in its aims'than formerly. It now seeks to embody ifcsett in every extension of public ownership, ■in the State regulation of industry, and ,in every law curtailing greed and increasing human happiness and freedom. "The 00-opdrative commonwealth, the signatories declare, "is our goal, but it will bo realised by patient plodding, and not by . noise and shouting. Tho party, when supporting reforms, has been told-that it is sacrificing its independence. This is a foolish and shallow charge, because the Liberals and Tories will offer reforms as an alternative to Socialism, and we accept them as an essential preliminary to Socialism. We are, nevertheless, not satisfied with the present rate of progress, and desire that it may bo greatly accelerated." . ■ '

RAILWAY CRISIS IMPENDING. GREAT DISSATISFACTION. (Rec. August 27, 10.20 p- n >.) ■■.■■'•■ ' London, August 26. The Labour'correspondent of the "Manchester' Guardian" says that Mr. Lloyd-George's railway conciliation scheme is on the verge of collapse. The executive of the Amalgamated Society of Railway' Servants is urging patience, and Mr.; Sidney Button, President' of the Board of Trade, has unavailingly; endeavoured to promote an understanding between the companies and the men. .. ' . v Unless a settlement is soon.reached he men will repudiate conciliation, re;ardless of the consequences. Describing .the genesis of the Osjonie judgment, the writer -Btates that Osborne, who Was a 'member 'of the Railway Servants'' Society, complained } of the endeavour of o Socialist- group to capture the Railway Society's funds for men the members disapproved. Of eighty-four thousand members only twelve thousand are now paying the 'voluntary levy of a shilling a year towards the Labour party's funds..