SOCIALISM AND LABOR M.P.'S

Evening Star, Issue 14931, 18 July 1912, Page 4

SOCIALISM AND LABOR M.P.'S

That ho has lost none of his virility or declamatory power, in spite of the weitrht of vears. was shown by Mr 11. M. Hvaiciman. the veteran SocialK in his speech at the Brit : sh Socialist Conference, whicn met in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, on Saturday, May 25. Srefikina to pis own motion taat trie main function of a Socialist party was u, aim at the conquest of political power—a | irction,- bv the wav. which was ovif!v:Ti..ly unvrl«omo to manv deh?ate«s. who would confine their activity to industrial maters —Mr HmdniEn expressed woncrrmrnt tnru anvbody who was i.ot an Anarchist could take exception to the resolution. J tie worse the Labor partv and th*. more th 3 mess fhev make of thirds the more nece* F i*v th?r"e is for Socialists to show th»m the way. (Cheers). "What you hayo won in the industrial field." he exclaimed, "vou have lost in Parliament, \ou say don't shoot; but thev shoot you jvet the same. Yon deserve to bo shot because you don't take the mea.ns of f.toppinc their shooting. Thev clap your man m -jaol; but you don't co ami shoot them and £«-■ him "out. If vou did I should say mop power to vour elbow. Remember that vou have 75 per cent of the men »nd women in this eountrv unorganised. Brag them in, and bring them in as Sociahsle. The Labor members have sold the fort not for monev—wor?e than that—they have eoid it for ncthimr. Organise lp.dus.nally and politioallv. and sweep away tne infomat class which oppresses you to-day. The resolution was carried. _ In the course of. another denunciatory epeeth conremintr recent industrial troubles, Mr Hvndman eaid that it waa of the utmost importance, in order to prevent anymore official trickerv as that by which both railwavmen and colliers were called, that Socialists should keep in touch with the dailv work of the organised unions lor the purpose of plating their cervices at the disposal of the workers of all srrades. "Politics," he declared, "are not played out because servillc Labor if ts inside the House of Commons have proved worse than incompetent." There was nothing real and nothing ideal in the flcundenn," ami hysterica! propaganda of segregated grab. Nationally and internationally, organised and educated, social democracy atone held the field. ____