The Dominion. TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1914. UNDERMINING LABOUR.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2015, 24 March 1914, Page 4

The Dominion. TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1914. UNDERMINING LABOUR.

building its owij future as a separata 1 and independent political party, borne at least ol the Social-Democra-tic Party have seen through the dovice, and have been astute-enough to recognise that if it should succeed it will mean the ruin of all their hopes. A gentleman named BloodwoijTH, oae of the leaderg of tho bocial.DeraocJ'ftts, has f«lt eaUect ori to write to th<; AwAland Star and place tfefl position as he sees it, in the plainest- possible terms, before his fellow Social-Democrats. Replyils,(>n MarcJi 20 to the arguments o! ttjQ advocates of alliance, he says: Yflup cewes.poitdpnt enuinerates soma at tfte supposed, boitefits which tibsralism hoA prveu us, buf there js scarceiv ahe in tho whole list that oii.mi.ot easily be shown, lo have Ijewflfed munvafcm inors ■ than .it has bewlited labour; • If sputa ' ■nennttterJ I wonid tajco thsm One at a time and movo what I say, but one insftHwo will suffice, He says we Jmvo less hours to klwur aad much higher Wages. In so far »# WberaUsm is for us havijtg less hours to labour, that was fee merely beeeusp it wns feind that the long imuw w-orlc--0(1 lfi MtMrJfls were ruijihig the workers, therefep lesiening' tho supply of ,i s bdu.r Qr t&e factories, it Was a.ot the wotfa.M o.f the. mdividual worker that'.Libatffhsm cared a-tout: they, looked' on the workers »sa part of their mra-hiiiefy, ami came td tie conclusion that it was bad polity on their part to run' thftt Uiaetawy too loiig. Ido not say that all Mio worked, for the wduetidti of houri :odk«l «'tt in this-light, neither wers , they, all Libprals-'Soine were Torksh-but . it was a business aii<t not a sentlmentiil emtiTo which caused the hours to bo re-idiKfiij'-aiud. wr must jmi f'prget thet . Goveninjents. Liberal as ive.lj «s Tory, hive mors otten opposed the rotation of "hours, when tho reduction wa.s pieppsed by the-workers themselves, than they have fli(le,(l it its to oui* h.aving very niuqh hißhor WagjES, t;h..at is true, reokoncu only by the actual aitioun.t «f ttonfv is, aoaiiiial But n we tioifle to .iietu.al Wflgseu, that is tlio e*wiijit of foods out money wilt buy, wo find thiit ever boepming' Jess. Ajid wheii has aii.y. dovCTniDent ever yoUinU.rjly rivistd tho. workta-s'. ijages? Wherever they have, done this fJrey Ij'n've bee,n: coiii.pEllqd to do so by tlie Orgftyi.i.Bftfion ', ftiid u'llttost Qofeniinetit' cujployces aro paid lo.Tt'er wqgss : th.aii the cftipiftrees of firms. ' ■

Efero it will b.o ecett that SJ-R. Br:,aopwoiiTif ■da.i.nis timt; iV was only tho organisation of labour that forced froff! lire:; Qpvej'nmeflt eu-cU panccssjoris as it has vzssiycin, Naturally, in tlie Jjft-w-r wants to sfcrengthea that o.rga.nisatiqn)' wWI« ' "Liberalism I ' , waflfcs to briiig it upder' the control 0i the."Liberal" Paj'ty njttchine to. Seryftt'lje eadg of Wa.j-elism, . jljj, Btbomyoftfuis not' to- be te.mpt.is(l by the wiles of "th> enem.y ) , 'a,jj. c l' S9 fe cnncludes his lettfit :in tjie leliowlug. tsTins: .-

', I for one Shonltl be. very.sorry {i !l doe4 to «4o thfi .Soqial-DenioftftSc PotH makft : any ■.agrSeift&rit at CQinjufomiso of any kind Avith tlie HberS'l iPnrJy, If ti,ey ; arc true to tjielr prijieip.J.es they will have to h.glifc tlw Uterrtfe w;heii thvy get into ■the- HTp:usft ; ;. antt if th«y are jlb| true to ' wei'r principles bow, bu:t ffiake jugnn'Weftts- with the flßMtf—well; thsv' will ■.deservi! al! the hard things eo;nic'*i)epp.le are now Sayidg ijiwat them, and a good dea,l mqre'peiiMles. B[alf & dozen .g«miii» bp.wa.hatA. in the g<juse wo.illd do flior.e gOßil for toboM.r thrtli. n w'liole Hdusß Ml of. Bifin ii.gre.e. with t!io'ei.i6M|.

.'■■ .In pmUcfa, is soi.n&what different, and. still metre interesting;. In- the Wfyrrtjsts 'hwb jiot ventured t$ directly attack-the existing Labour OTgaulsaftons,. ti.iifc in the' ;posibio.n apparent}}* is ! -ho des.pera,t;o that it was. deemed iidvisaWe to atteun.pfc to split the Laboin* vote by crbafciiiff ■aneiititcly iiew organWtioH. Tte method foilpwej) a.p:.pcaf.ss/tp h.a;v.o Ijceii for a section &f: the Wrdjsts ~to, flpi together- aiid iaim. ft Eibigral caid l&hviip federal ttoftj. the idea- no d.oii ; bt being that: a- to tili.c ok! dmijil.c-. fean-clled iiani-o. rtH-ghfc serve ti? attracb' a piiition of the "Labour falio.wingto the '-'Wbm-V' pawp:. Hdgiw' ii-Qtn tile rocoptjpn. this little steategy : has rfieoivccl no quo Ims fen deceived lay. it,- md it is likely aot. pjvJy to {leieat its own purpose, but t<s :pfQye jsxtoijieily cjwbarraSskig for S.lli |o.SESh Wftfefl jjiid his foiipVpta. I .& iQbislfcijurEli w-hicli 'will be found in. another . tolumii, .in* dieat&s the. the g-ociftl-Dc.ni<sCPat;ic Party takes gf tljo %a.fto,e:BVre. I.t regards it ag "h©.?tije," aad the presideni of thfr Dtest ohnrfeli b.rs&eh ol the p.afty f.rarikly, Wβ {night ahnbsfc s.ay_" foriflS- the new organisation: that it will be ireated im a '''scab" OTgaii' isati&n. Sift Josep« Wars has Been eomn}iwica,ted wfth '<>h. the subject, wljich Would'seem , to that the Sflciaf-Deniociiat-s, holi 'h-ini ov his party rssponsiijle for ihe- attempt to sejiufie Laboui' <jnd steppi-vo it of its inde.l3.eiideii.t oxUkncQ. We showld imagine- that tho Leader of the Qp> ■i>(3sjti.o», often though he iftiiy have, lilfttilerqd in his political tactics. (loiiW hAl'dly havo been guilty of the Stiipidiiy O'f attempting to u-nder-tnihe the. cxist-jng .Laboiu' OTganfefitions in the etilingy fashion Wieffitod, His plans to atteact the Jja)ao«].' i Sop.i..alisit vole- would be wore: Circumspect, As ?i ftiatter of fact, h.tt .probably realises that iift apttt with, the Ifted ffedeyatioft tij.enio.iit \vox\ld ijot pay hiiji ■po-i.-itical-iy, and he. ia- likely to bft .muoli en).barrassed jjy ifhc publicity Whieh lias been gjvon'to flis- efforts of hie-[k-ijtp-qaftts.to bring a;boiit- a- *orkiQg iffia.ttce. W« poihtptl out on a -(ifci'ipHs- i o.cca,si':on that Jα sevo-rel of th.o Saaterhury electorates the prospeets }I the Labour-Soeia-Ijsts ar* njjite as *o.pd ,as tJiO. O.pptisifciqq cajidida-tps: hit as the Oippesitipuists at prs-sfefc veti the Beais, fliit} are not likely to pxe, ttay t(X i niake *<jioni ;for tho.se ■they ate seeking to make tli-ci-r • aljies there is little ioflc of any fjort (it [ alßftiKe. ' Why shonjd the LatujrtH"Socialists swsrifieo .thfrrr chances for . t-Ije Wardiste; a : n:d, o-fHially, whf should the Wardrsts s&erifi.cc their ■ chances for t-Jto Labotir'Socialists 1 Thai,- how.cvei'r is a problciß for tmr Labour ami -"Liberal" friends to settle itTOOiJgs? themselviisv If Bin JoStyU Ward were wise ho would ropudkic fehe Bed Federation and its political adjunct, the Social-Petno-cratje Pa;rt.y altogether, for an 3111a.neo with' the, forees t-hoy represont., OTCH if it were passible, must injure him in the, eyes of a large portion ef his aid followJßg. As hfe past Sβ-GG-rd hai'dly. justifies-the expectation f that , he mil tafce a bold wuvm of ■this kind., we may ktfk fenvard to -smuc interest-Jug t m-anefeuvrlag k--tween t.|e two ppties In iho- months to come : *ere. elcctiati day arrives; ntui Laboar will be lortunate if jt does nob emerge from the pells wffl» ftg vote sjijit by t-bo d&vieeg of it*'.professed friends. ' • .