LABOR AND SOCIALISM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 28, 3 February 1914, Page 6

LABOR AND SOCIALISM.

SPEECH BY RAMSAY MACDONALD [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.j London, February 2.

Mr Tfcjtnwiy MncDonald, speaking at Glasgow', said the recent conference showed for the first time in the history of the. Labor movement in Britain that they had now united the various lections of the party. What they wanted was to change the whole mental attitude of the nation towards Socialism, and from that standpoint direct trade unionists' action. Unless big things were ahead they must maintain the civil liberty of the men engaged in industrial disputes. Direct action was unable to do that, as was proved throughout the world in the past 12 months. The Labor movement nurse be far more careful in the future about getting themselves mixed up with unauthorised strikes than heretofore.

Mr Holdcn, the prospective National and Labor candidate for Accrington, announced the formation of a National party with headquarters at Manchester. The programme was to secure a legal minimum of 30s for all adult men and women in the provinces and 35s a week in London, 48 hours, also pay during holidays, sickness and unemployment., besides an old-age pension at 60. This was the only immediately practical proposal preventing strikes, and allaying Labor unrest and solving the problem of poverty.