OSBORNE JUDGMENT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 945, 12 October 1910, Page 5

OSBORNE JUDGMENT.

SOCIALIST AND LABOUR VIEWS.

By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright, .. '•: London, October 10. Mr. Keir Hardie, Labour member for Merthyr Tydvil, speaking at Newmilns, Ayrshire, said the only issuo in the Osborne case was whether the workers were' free to have their own party if they paid for it, or'were-to take the representation their betters were willing to allow thorn. Mr, John Ward, Labour member for Stoke, 'speaking. at Cheadle, Staffordshire, said the Osborne decision was the result of the spirit of intolerance which swept over trade unionism: after the formation of the''Parliamentary Labour party. Tho einsistenco -of a pledge from members, at the Newcastle Conference.'was a tremendous' blunder. Tho 'reversal of tho Osborne judgment' might take years... ' Ifr. Ward'advocated payment of members as'a partial solution of the difficulty. .; '.'.'■■•. -.-.'-.■' •'. "THE ONLY QUESTION BEFORE . ;,; - ,V ; THE,COUNTRT." T: , v : (ReC; October 12, 0.55 ajh.) '-.'.'.,'•'. London, October 11. Mr. Ramsay Mao Donald, Labour member for Leicester, in a speech at Croydon, -said the only question before, the country was the reversal of the -Osborne', judgment'.;;' ..!'■•'■'.',,'.'.' ' ■' , :- ; ; : : . .' ■ Any., misapprehension on the Government's ' part would be removed within hours of the reassembling of Parliament -'-- "We must insist," Mr. Mao Donald, declared, "on-the immediate reversal of the judgment.; The supremo '■ question -is whether there will be a. place, broad, ample,, and secure, provided by the; Con r stitation for Labour, representation. 'Nothing else has the least agnificance to tho Labour party, tho; majority of whom" are v trade" unionists.";.. ..