The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-10-03
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Veny Few Wor<insn,en Nominated 70,
the Neutrality-suspicious. Matters IL,
England.
Especial Correspondence

Especial Correspondence
London, England Oct. before
this reaches my American readers the
great Socialist Convention in Dresden
will have been held. I want to- warn
my readers against placing too i'm
plict faith in what the Geographic re-
ports will have to say concerning this
meeting. I do not doubt but that the
main facts will be told, but the spirits
which animates such gathering is
liable to be suppressed or exaggerated
or n1inimized, 50 that wrong Impress
ion is given. / do not know myself
Just what will be done, though I can
guess" Yankee like, that Babers pos
ition will in the main be sustained, and
that the opportunists will not come
out of the melee without some deep
scars.
|; The Socialist Party of Germany is
supposed to represent the proletariat.
A glance at the occupations at the 81
elected to the Reichstag, last June, does
not show so many "Workmen'' as one
would suppose. Sixteen are editors of
newspapers, thirteen are literary men
unattached to any particular journal,
three are described as Journalists, seven
are tobocconists, five are master print
ers five are publicans, fifteen are en-
ployed in various capacities in Social
list organizations and trade unions,
three are lawyers, three tailors, two
cabinet makers, one merchant, one
manufacturer, one bookbinder, one up
holsterer, one glovemaker, 'one book
no occupation. How is that for a Ga
bor'' party?
Labor Secretary and Protection.
James Macdonald, secretary of the
London Trades Council, has come to
the support of Mr.. Chamberlain's pro-
lection policy, and this detection from
the free trade labor ranks has caused
some perturbations to those desiring a
great labor party. It is vociferiously
explained that Mr.. Macdonald does not
| represent the opinions Of the labor men
of the metropolis and that he hasn't
! much Of a following anyway. 1t must
be remembered that London elects
Tory, not liberal members to parlia-
ment, strange as it may seem. If the
workingmen become politically united
| will cut into the Tory majority in
Parliament.
Since Macdonald has come out for
Chamberlain's policy. Reynolds news
paper notifies the trade union men that
they must take immediate steps to in
| dictate their position on the question
1T is a curious commentary Of the sag
acity of Mr.. Macdonald's protectionist
| theories" says this organ of the Rad
| icals, that the price of bread is going
up all over the country, and that with
the protection embargo on sugar, which
this infamous government. has1gecured
at $theksi nsta CATION sc 2gh amberlain,s the
Cprce= Eof confect ionefy ~ being raised
and permanent tax of about So 900,
600 a year will be thrown on the PEG.
pie, besides a great loss Of employment
in the hundreds of occupations in which
sugar is an article Of manufacture
The duty of secretary Of public
| body when he expresses his individual
opinions is to make it clear that he is
speaking only for himself
London Chamber Of Arbitration.
The number Of submissions dealt with
by the London Chamber Of Arbitration
during the years 1901 and 1902 was ten
in which twenty-five arbitrator were
nominated, and received 1913 in fees
the office fees amounting to $3.50. The
Joint Committee of Management Of the
Chamber, in it's report to the County
Purposes Committee of the Corporation
states that although the number OF
cases had not increased, the usefulness
of the Chamber had not, in the highest
degree, diminished as was shown by
the number of inquiries made, and also
by the fact that contracts were almost
daily entered into containing the u.s.
ual arbitration clause for the reference
Of disputes to the chamber, in addition
to Which forms of the chamber were
| often had recourse to, although the
particular matters in dispute might not
| eventually find their way to the cham
Der.
William Webb, in Boyce's Weekly.