The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-02
ENGLAND IS SOCIALISTIC.
The Queens Domain HOneycOmbed With New
Ideas and Methods
bloody Revelation Che
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f ment they found that out they began 20
manufacture "A vast surplus stock
] ~ hereVer boots and shoes were made
Z they arranged 10 have a part Of this sur
. plus prepared. They expected the out
f break 10 London, but they prepared for il
by getting the Scotch and even the Amer
lean manufacturers TO increase their out
/ put. OF course this was also done In the
I provinces Of England. At last when they
saw that the strike could be postponed
1 but little while longer they took the
4 bull by the horns and locked the men out
/ Instantly they threw the vast surplus
| stock Of boots and shoes upon the mar
/ ket and waited comfortably for the men
I 10 come TO time. OF course they didn't
have to wait long. Boots and shoes were
never so cheap in London as during that
/ lockout The trouble did not have the
least effect upon the market and the
manufacturers had so large a surplus on
/ hand that they were not at all worried
I by the stoppage Of their shops But the
men starved and they had to give in.
Manufacturers have learned this way of
( beating the men, and the men are help
less. Trades unions have not won an i'm
portant strike in London in a long time
May Of the once big unions are power
less. This is especially true Of the dock
ers. You remember the great dock strike?
| Well, IL killed the union that made it,
and did not help the men at all. The
trades union situation in London is dis
tressing.
up to 1867 the working class I'm Eng
land had absolutely no voice in the gov
eminent of the country. Since then, when
the workingmen began to gain the priv
ilege of casting ballots, more or less spas
mode efforts have been made to secure
actual representation Of labor in the House
OF Commons. The first labor members
were elected in 1874. In 1884 several others
gained their seats At present there arc
half dozen labor members During the
past eleven years the workers have slow
~ awakened 10 the fact that even their
present somewhat liberal representation
can do them no practical good They
realize now that II is not a voice in the
midst of other voices which they need.
! They realize that they cannot achieve
their end without obtaining absolute con-
troll. Local victories and the return of 4
few members from scattered boroughs
are not important matters. National or
ganization and national power are neces-
sary Hence the organization of
the Independent Labor party. This party
has come into being since the last gem
eral election. The first definite move In
its direction was made in September,
1892, when the basis Of the present or
Ganization was formed at the trades con-
gress I'm Glasgow.
1.-THE party is socialistic. We shall be sat
isfied with nothing but socialism, munich
pal socialism. national socialism, indus
trial socialism. We know what we want,
and We all want 1t. We do not want to
fight for 1t; but If we cannot get II any
| other way, we will fight for il, and when
we fight We shall fight with determine
| ton. The avowed object of the Independ-
! ent Labor party is to bring about an in
| dustrial commonwealth founded on the So
ciallzation of land and industrial capital.
| We believe that the natural political d.
visions must be or economical lines.
"Of the wrongs of the present system
| what do you consider to be the greatest
single oppression upon British working
| mem"
Il should say regularity and uncer-
| tSaty Of employment. You may be
aware that I have made this question a
speciality and know that l am speaking
! fact when say that in the British Islands
there are over million able-bodied adult
workers, who are neither drunkards,
| ioafcrs. nor of less than average intelli-
gcnce. but who are still out of employment
| through no fault of their own, and utterly
| unable TO get work. Wages appear to be
| higher than they were half century
! ago, but when the loss of time through
| lack of employment is taken into consid-
| Grafton 1t is found that the condition of
! the worker has really refrigerated. A
| small steady wage produces greater com
| fort than a larger sum earned irregularIy.
! II the right to earn a living wage was Sc
| cured to every worker. most of the ques-
lions which veX US would be solved by
| natural process. The situation is surely
| melancholy. During the recent dreadful
cold weather relief works were opened al
| which men could have four hours work
| at sweeping the streets at sixpence an
hour. Thousands gathered outside tho
yard gates as early as a. m. in order &c
! be in the front of the line. There they
| stood, shivering and shaking in the cold
half-starved and filled with despair. unit
S n. m, when the yards were opened. The
| rush which followed was little less thar
a riot. Men were literally trampled tC
death in that horrible scramble for the on
portunity to earn two shillings The place
was wrecked. Hungry men in solid mass
pushed on by thousands in the rear
crushed the walls and gates in their anx
iety to find employment. These men wer,
no loafers.
THE average wage of unskllled labor
in London, even when it keeps up to tn,
trades union standard, is only sixpence al
hour In the English provinces it is less
Careful study has shown that nothing un
der three guineas week VIII enable tn,
average family 0wo adults and three chill
dren) to enjoy common comfort
workers an England receive thi
not to mentor luxuries. Very few
workers in England receive thi
sum, or anything like it Tha
ceive this sum, or anything like It, Tha
skilled workman is fortunate who get
two guineas a week the year round, an,
! that laborer is lucky who manages TO ear
q shilhngs in the course of each sever
days, one-third Of which must go for rent
! SO IN the best-pGid classes Of workers tn
family can only keep itself at the povert
, line. very short period OF enforced idle
! ness IS invariably Sufficient to drag Their
! below il. Hence our vast number or pau
: pors.''
IL may be wen here for me to interiec
$ | certain statistics OF England's economical
e ! condition. London contains now owe
j. 100000 persons. Sixty thousand familie
Q 2OO,030 persons) average i weekly incom
- per family OF less than Is shillings q. weel
2 ana 1--we in state of chronic want. on
= in every eight CO the total population G
T London is at the present moment rec
: ognized pauper. Every day $1,000 childre
y attend the board schools having gon
e without breakfast. Thirty thousand pei
Q sons have no homes ether than the foul