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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 23, 28 January 1908, Page 7

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SOCIALISM AND LABOUR DISSOLUTION OF UNION URGED. By Telegraph. — press Association. — Copyright. (Received January 28, 9.11 a.m.) LONDON, 27tk January Mr. A. J. Balfour, ex-Premier, lectured at Newnham College on political and national decadence. Ho inttanced slavery, a diminishing birthrate, and lack of initiative among the causes of decay. He hac 1 not perceived either pause or retrogression in tho onward movement of Western civilisation. Mr. F. Maddison, Labour member for Burnley, urges Mr. D. J. Shackleton, M.P. for Clitheroe and member of the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress, to dissolve the alliance of the trade unionists with the Socialist organisations. Mr. Maddison says it is intolerable that a trade unionist should be compelled to subscribe to promote Socialism. THE RED AND BLACK FLAGS. VIGOROUS SPEECH BY MR. GRAYSON. (Received January 28, 9.11 a.m.) LONDON, 27th January. The Master of Elibank (Mr. A. W. Murray, chief Liberal Whip), speaking at Warminster, advocated a militant attitude towards the red and black flags of Socialism and Protection. Mr. Grayson, Socialist member for Colne Valley, in a speech at East Ham, said the Hull decision absolutely bound the Labour party to Socialism. Universal pensions, provided by taxing the rich, alone would satisfy labour. Since the Liberal party was packed with plutocrats, who resent interference with their plunder, they had better join the Tories, i