BRITISH LABOUR

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 97, 18 January 1921, Page 7

BRITISH LABOUR

REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT ANALYSED

“BOLSHEVIK STOCK ” FALLEN HEAVILY

DANGER OF ACUTE UNEMPLOYMENT

By Telegraph—Press Associa-tion-Copyright London, January 15.

"Tho Times” publishes the first of a series of articles by Dr. Arthur Shad-, --veil after a tour of the industrial areas. Tho writer closely analyses the revolutionary movement in Britain, and finds a maze of activity, with little cohesion. Individualism is rampant among the Communistic societies. Although the headquarters are in London, the chief stronghold is on the Clyde, where there is explosive material in a prodigious circulation of literature. The moderates think that acute unemployment will prove a match to* the powder magazine. Moreover, sixty thousand Sinn Feinors drill regularly in Glasgow in their own balls. Dr. Shadwell does not find much oi the most extreme tendency amongst genuine unionists; indeed. "Bolshevik stock” has fallen heavily in Britain and on the Continent. He welcomes the activities of the Labour colleges, with their full-time tutors and strong propaganda influence, because he is convinced that only passion stands for bloody revolution, while reason makes for reform.— “The Times.” [Dr. Arthur Shadwell, M.A., M.D., LL.D., author and journalist, is a wellknown writer on scientific, sociological, and industrial questions, and his travelled to investigate these matters in Europe, United States, and Canada.] MANY MORE WORKLESS BOLD POLICY OF RECONSTRUCTION CALLED FOR. London, January 16.

The week-end sees a great increase in unemployed. The complete or partial closing of more works has rendered idle 100.006 more workers. The Government has put up “short-time notices at the docks and arsenals, and these . have caused turbulent excitement. Mass meetings strongly condemned tho Government’s action. . . The Sunday papers view the situation gloomily. Mr. J. L. Garvin attributes the position partly to the crushing load of taxation, which must be lightened by hook or by crook. Mr. Robert Blatchford denounces the Government s labour proposals for meeting the unemployment position as equal to political quackery. Some papers foresee an early general election unless tho Government evolves a bold policy of rconstruction.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn-