A LABOUR GOVERNMENT.

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 148, 25 June 1934, Page 8

A LABOUR GOVERNMENT.

Professor Laski went on to,say that if he read the recent clectio'n results" right an election within tho 'next two years would result in at least a repetition of 1929, and might conceivably result in tho return of a Labour majority.That might easily be a disastrous thing. (Hear, hear.) If, he said, they wero foturned, but not in terms of the positive conviction of> tho party that thoy wanted Socialism, and nothing but Socialism, and not Liberalism and the brand of 1906, as in 1929—if thoy wero elected, as might easily happen, on the basis of disgust with the National Government tho next Labour. Government might just as easily as tho last.bo a disaster, "and," ho added, "such a Government'Will be the destruction of the Socialist movement." ..•■.. Mr. J. P. M. Millar, the general secretary, warned his audience against tho view that Fascism was simply" a "dodge" of a few wealthy capitalists. There woro more powerful. forces at work than mere trickery behind '' somebody's closed doors." . There-had been an enormous change in the capitalist system and the capitalist class, who now took tho view that ; economic problems were sufficiently serious without having to strugglo against a working-class movement. That movement and political democracy itsolf were "in the way." - In reply to a question about wireless "talks," Mr., Millar said the Workers' Educational Association had had no difficulty m being represented on the 8.8.C. Adult Education" Committee, but they, as an entirely . independent working-class educational .body, were barred. One prominent member of tho committee, "who described'himself, as an educationist," had threatened to resign if the "National Council of Labour Colleges was represented by one member on the committee. .