WORKERS' AIMS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 26, 31 January 1913, Page 7

WORKERS' AIMS

POLITICAL ACTION NOT FUTILE EVERYTHING POSSIBLE .WITH UNITED ACTION. By Telegrnpti .— PrMs Association.— Copyright, LONDON, 30th January. | Mr. G. H. Roberts, Labour M.P. for Norwich, in presiding at a conference of the Labour Party at Lambeth, challenged the view that political action was futile, and industrialism the only method of realising the workers' aims. If neither political action nor the strike policy ! realised their expectations, it was due to the lack of working-class adhesion attd enthusiasm. When a popular franchise was secured the people could master the State. He viewed compulsory industrial I arbitration with misgivings, but the integrity of contracts should be maintained, except under great provocation. With united action the nationalisation of the mines and railways would be as easily practicable as the transference of the telephones from the National Telephone Company to the State had been. discipline within the party. socialists~~and trade \ unionists. (Received January 31, 10.35 a.m.) LONDON, 30th January. The conference adopted a rule enforcing discipline within the party in the House of Commons. Mr. Will Thorne. M.t\ for West Ham. and thirteen Socialists, said they would never agree with the twenty-seven trade unionists on economic questions. PARTY'S FRANCHISE RESOLUTION. GOVERNMENT MEASURE SHOULD BE DEMANDED. (Received January 31, 10.35 a.m.) LONDON, 30th January. At the conference at Lambeth, the Parliamentary Party was insttucted, by 850 votes to 437, to oppose any Franchise Bill which excludes women.Mr. Philip Snowden, M.P. for Blackburn, said that Labour should demand a Government measure. The women's position was infinitely worse than a year ago. A divided Cabinet must not obstruct the expressed will of a- majority Of the House of Commons. "GREATER FARCB THAN USUAL." THE INNER* CAUCUS. (Received January 31, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, 30th January. Ihe Labourite newspaper, the Daily Herald, describes the conference at Lambeth as a greater farce than usual. The delegates are only there to register the decrees of the inner caucus. RAILWAY COMPANY AND STRIKERS. (Received January si, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, 30th January. The Board of Trade declares that the Midland Railway Company violated the 1911' agreement in one out of twenty alleged victimisations. i COMPULSORY ARBITRATION IN AMERICA. DENOUNCED ByTaBOUR LEADER NEW YORK, 30th January." Mr. Samuel Gompers, president of the ' American Federation of Labour, has de- ! nounced the Compulsory Arbitration Bill before the State Legislature. Strikes and lock-outs, he declared, were always preferable to surrendering to injustice. The Canadian and United Stages workers were united on this point.