"STRATFORD EVENING POST" FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1929. THE CLYDESIDE MANNER.

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 45, 6 December 1929, Page 4

"STRATFORD EVENING POST" FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1929. THE CLYDESIDE MANNER.

THE worst thorns m the flesh ■of Labour Ministries are not infrequently planted there try those to whom they look for support. The Parliamentary Labour Party at Home has a noisy Left Wino- that simply will not be silenced. The Clydesiders who sit in the House of Commons ar e as ready to denounce the Labour Government for ;.ts sins of omission, or what they consider to be its sins, of omission, as they were to denounce its predecessor, and they are not .offering- any apologies for their outspokenness. They _have been holding their breatli for* a space, it is true, but they are not disposed to give Mr Ramsay MaoDonald and his colleague "further grace Jot the_ carrying into execution'of important features of their party election programme. The situation with regard to unemployment has provided Messrs Maxton and Kirkwood and others of the Ciydeside "rebels" with ammunition of which they are~liiLoT~reluctant to make use. Since the Labour Government came into office unemployment, which was so soon to diminish, has increased, and Mr J. H. Thomas, the Minister whose task it is to carry out the Government's plans for TTealing with this question, is not in a particularly enviable position. There is the Maxton way, certainly, of curing! unemployment, but the remedy would be worse than the disease. And the diseass i.s of unquestionable gravity.' fhcre are more than one million me a and Women in Great Britain who are permanently out of work Now, as a writer in the Fortnightly Review observes, the danger to the community comes not from the man who seeks work, but from the one who despairs about finding work. A danger even greater is the man who has grown up without knowing what work is. Among the socalled working class in Great Britain a young generation has sprung up which has not one day's work to its credit. From all points of view the evil of unemployment at Home is of such a nature as to give cause for a great deal of uneasiness. The members of the Ciydeside group in the House of Commons are in the meantime not unhappy as n self-constituted goad to a Government which is moving far too slowly lo me*d their apnrovl They arc making party trouble out of the situation, denouncing tho Government heartily for not fulfilling its pledges', and threatening to vote against it and break it unless it "deliv-rs the «oods." Extremists as they are

wedded to impracticable and predatory ideas, they are more than difficult to manage. Despite iiil efforts to bring them to a ,-miso of their obligation to the iiovtrunienl and the party to v.'linh ilie.s belong", thev are unrcvniantj.v disgruntled and seem to glory in their disloyalty. They are securing some publicity, if that bfi one of their objects, but they are certainly rather embarrassing satellites of the Labour-Socialist Government and are more vociferous critics of its doings than its professed political opponents. Ine situation is not without humour of course, in that the Government should thus be interpreted from its own side of the House.