THE POLITICAL PARTIES.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20334, 5 September 1931, Page 11

THE POLITICAL PARTIES.

TO TH£ EDITOR Or THB P»«SS Sir,—ln reply to Mr Thompson. I see he thinks 1 am a good subject for the Socialistic demagogues! 1 should certainly reconcile myself to Socialism before I would/to the class he is reconciled to. I still think 1 can base my facts on as good ,a basis as he can. I still ( maintain that any measure passed by Conservatism was under compulsion of the Liberal Party of those times which corresponds to the Labour Party of to-day. As regard the Electoral Reform Bill, why had any class the right to withhold, the vote from any person at all over the age of 21 years? Twenty years ago (not 1841) workmen in England were discharged ajid victimised from following their calling, and had even to change their names and remove far from tho .district, simply because they would not vote Conservative. I certainly am not so blindly selfish as to wish one cldss to benefit by the depression, because one class are doing so, and they are well in the minority —the bankers and international financiers. ' Regarding the 10 per ceriW reductions, if the lowering of the cost, of production does not make increased sales, what will P Has it enabled more employees to be retained! Most emphatically not, Has the reduction been passed on? No, because the cost of production has not been lowered by the reduction. Wages are 15J per cent, behind the cost of living. If that was being paid production would rise because of the demand. What is the difference .between £1 and £lO per week if the wage received will only give sustenance? . That is all we receive under the present social system. If Mr Thompson is satisfied with 37s 6d per Week three weeks out of four, under Reform or United (I think they are much of a muchness), he will soon have a transparent bodv instead of an intransigent mind, Certainly I admit that the tax was higher in 1923. was his much boasted hero and Wrt.V that started it on its decline. I should like Mr Thompson's opinion on why the directors of the Bank of England turned down wage reductions, and what he thinks of the steps they thought ought to be taken with the owners of industries; also whether be thinks Mr G. 13. Shaw is a Social demagogue. (No," J will not , entertain his opinion on ('either/, for I think he is too bigoted, and it is surprising to me that he accepts relief from any source other than his own Party. So close this political Partv debate, and I will leave him to the tender mercies of Reform's pet demagogue,)—-Yours, etc., EX-SOLDIER LABOURER. September 4fhj 1931.