THREATS TO REVOLT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 25 August 1925, Page 9

THREATS TO REVOLT.

M.P.’S FIER.Y EVANGEL

WRITER. STIRS UP MIDDLE CLASSES AND WORKERS. LONDON, Aug. 15. Mr. J. Wheatley, Labour M.P. for the Shettleston division of Glasgow, Who -was Minister for Health in the MacDonald Government, contributes tin. article, entitled “The Triumph of Clook,’' to an extremist Glasgow paper, the South Side Standard, in which he asserts that the workers were losing faith in trade unionism, but the triumph of Air. A. J. Cook, the general Cieoi-eta.ry of the Miners’ Federation, had given new life to the movement.

“We are on the threshold of an industrial and .social revolution,” he writes. “Whether it eventuates peaceably or otherwise depends on our intelligence. No serious effort is being made to reconstruct society. W T e have gob a nine-months’ truce, and, instead of using the time to re-arrange the social and industrial system, we will continue in the dear odd .stupiid Way. „ Jjfl capitalists will get the Fascists carry on the transport system, and will make them independent workers during .the general strike. The navy will be ordered to. man the mines, and soldiers and police will be drilled to keep the Locked-o-ut mobs orderly, While starvation forces them into submission. The workers, because they are Britons, and not of a servile Eastern race; will meet this capitalist onslaught with enthusiasm and determination, largely generated by Cook’s triumph. “If working class soldiers can be re-

lied on to snoot wonting class stri.Kers, capitalism will get a new lease of life by making Britain a land of coolies. If the soldiers fail, capitalism will be lost. The workers must be prepared during the ensuing nine months for the greatest .struggle in their history. ’ Cook’s Disclosures. Mr. A. J. Cook, when addressing .a gathering o.f Durham miners yesterday, asserted that the Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, during the'coal negotiations, said: “You had ns thiis time; we will be prepared in future.” Air. AViiniston Churchill, according to

Mr. Cook, remarked: “The subsidy is not a gift, but it iis cheaper than a revoluitino.” Officers from Scotland Yard are Combing London for -a woman Communist, who has distributed newssheets designed to .subvert soldiers and Sailons.

Arnold Bennett, in an article in the Sunday Pictorial, exposes the manner in which the public is plundered by fatuous reforms. He points out that the taxes in eleven years have risen from £3 11s a head to £lo 18s —twice that of any other country’s. Smokers pay 60s each, and drinker?* 80s. r'The price of Government, exclusive of debt settlement,” he says, “has risen from £167,000.000 to £440,000.000. This is out of all proportion to other cost®.

“The British middle classes, hitherto the finest. most docile, and most generous public in the world, are on the eve of revolt.”