BRITISH LABOR.

Evening Star, Issue 14689, 5 October 1911, Page 6

BRITISH LABOR.

RAILWAY TROUBLES CONTINUE. ONE COMPANY "REDUCES HANDS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, October 4. Ther© is consternation at Crew© owing to the London and North-NVestern Railway Company discharging 700 employees, or 10 per cent, of the ordinary staff. The men had been working short time for 33 month*, and one of the objects of the recent strike was to secure full time. The company explain that the stuff at Crewe was too large. The executive of the Amalgamated Society of Raihvaymen at Dublin have reopened negotiations with the Irish railway companies. IRISH RAILWAY STRIKE SETTLED. LONDON, October 4. (Received October 5, at 10.5 a.m.) The great Southern and Western Railway strike has been settled. The men withdrew their claim not to handle " blackleg " goods, and apologised for striking. The company will reinstate the locomotive men and 90 per cent, of the others, ■but will retain those men that were employed during the progress of the strike. SYNDICALISM DENOUNCED. LONDON, October 4. (Received October 5. at 9.25 a.m.) In the course of an article in the ' Socialist, Review,' Mr .1. Ramsay Macdonakl, M.P., strongly attacks Syndicalism and the general strike theory. [Commenting on the Parliamentary Labor party's attitude- on the recent railway strike's, the London ' Times' said: We have frequently referred to syndicalism, the new doeirino which has developed in France during the last 10 years, and spread to countries, and we havo pointed to M-mptoms of its appearance in some recent Labor manifestations of our own. The Socialist teaching of the class war and of the. right of the laborer to the whole produce of labor operates in two distinct directions on the men to whom it is addressed—a- political and a non-political direction. Germany is the most prominent example- of the one, as manifested in the growth of the -Social Democratic Parliamentary party. France exemplifies the other, in the development of non-parliamentary syndicalism, which 's the natural interpretation of Socialist teaching that occurs to trade unionists of a vigorous and pugnacious temperament. They are told that they produce everything, and ought to own and enjoy everything ; the reason why they do not, is that they are robbed by the capitalist, who is the employer. ("hey nat-urally jump to the conclusion that the proper remedy is to go and take their own by means of strikes and violence. That is syndicalism, and it is making way here. The Labor party represent- the other and political view, which finds the remedy for Labor's wrongs in parliamentary action and in. voting for Socialist candidates. Syndicalism is their enemy, and it is perhaps natural that they should not recognise it : but its appearance means th'at they are out of touch with the real Labor movement.] NATIONALISM OF RAILWAYS. LONDON, OetobcT 4. (Received October 5, at 8.5 a.m.) A meeting of the Amalgamated Railway Men's Society at Carlisle resolved in favor of the nationalisation of railways, a.n eight hours.' working d.iv. and the reform of t.he Labor exchanges in order that they sha'l not be used against trades union interests. IRISH RAILWAY STRIKE DENOUNCED. LONDON, October 4. (Received Octoher 5, at 9.25 a.m.) In the course of a circular letter to the Northumberland minors, Mr T. Burt-. M.P., denounces the Irish railway strike as arbitrary, ill-timed, and weakening an otherwise, strong case for the recognition of the union.