THE IRRECONCILABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 53, 17 October 1911, Page 2

THE IRRECONCILABLES.

The scheme of industrial conciliation that has been prepared by the Hoard of Trade seems to he meeting with general approval among the leaders of organised labour at Home, but it is safe to assume that from one quarter at least angry condemnation ,is being poured upon the whole proposal. The eager reformers who give expression tq tlieir views in the pages of the “Clarion,” with Mr Robert Blatchford and Mr Victor Grayson at their head, are engaged in an attempt to establish a new Socialist Party in tlie Mother Country, and they declare frankly their conviction that any plan approved by Liberals, Conservatives, and official labour leaders must necessarily be opposed to the real interests of the workers. The British Socialist Party is to be independent of the Fabian Society, the Labour Party, the Independent Labour Party, the Socialist Party, the Socialist Labour Party, and all the other Socialist and Labour organisations at present in existence. Its promoters desire that it shall be a militant, revolutionary body, tolerating no dallyings with the “capitalist class” and content with no measure of social reform short of the complete nationalisation of everything. The workers who were enga'ged in the transport strikes believe that they scored a victory, since they secured from the employers practically all that they had asked, but the “Clarion” writers take a different view of the situation. They have been proclaiming that Labour sustained a crushing and demoralising defeat, that it was “sold” by its leaders and that it deserved no better fate for having been stupid enough to trust Mr Ramsay MacLonald and his comrades. Sir Grayson was specially emphatic in warning the workers that a time of exceeding peril was at hand, since the “masters” would try to devise an arrangement that would prevent another paralysing national strike. No doubt lie and Sir Blatchford will profess to see in the conciliation scheme the realisation of all their fears. Strong language and strong measures are necessary, perhaps, if the new party is to be floated successfully, is the opinion expressed bv the “Lyttelton Times.”