REVOLT AGAINST SOCIETY.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13391, 12 February 1914, Page 8

REVOLT AGAINST SOCIETY.

The example of Sir Edward Carson in setting the law at defiance for political purposes has not been lost upon the extremists of "the Labour organisation known as the Syndicalists. At the Syndicalist Congress, held in London recently the chairman, Mr Guy Bowman, said the work of the conference was the linking up of the revolutionaries of the world. Mr Ben Tillett rein arked that he was a revolutionary Socialist and revolution had a kindly interest for him. * But he wanted It well ordered and efficiently organised; and he wanted direct action; but, above all things, he wanted an intelligent conception of what they were aiming at. Of course, he thought they were all right so long as they were in revolt —as long as they were rebels against society as it was ordered, they were right. He instanced Sir Edward Carson as a legal, political, economic, and racial Syndicalist, who believed in direct action; and when they had the courage they were going to follow his example". Their movement was more pregnant with meaning and purpose than it had ever been before. The majority of the working class, he added, believed it w,as right to be slaves. He wanted to demand in full not only the security of life, but a master share of the woalth created by the miraculous power of labour. In a letter to the chairman, Mr. George Lansbui\v wrote: "All of us Avho are in real re-, volt are soldiers, striving and working for the complete emancipation of all women and all men." He appealed for the spirit of fraternity and brotherhood and was binding the Diibljin workers and the British workersj|^|o one solid army against waged6ro.|'^|]l who; were united in a desire to destroy the wages system were working for; "the same end, although ; tlieir: methods might differ. It was quite certain;that if their objects were the same and if they wero true -to one another they could not 36ng;be separated. '■!*