Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04
LABOR LEADER is AWAITED
Much Speculation ns to Who VIII
Head the New Parliamentary
Force.

LONDON, March 3.-tSpeCial Cablegram
~ The Bee. There is much speculation a.
to who will finally evolve the new labor
leader in Parliament. In point of parlla-
mentary service Mr.. Keir Hardie should
have the first claim. but he is strongly
opposed by members of his own party.
Other men who may fight their way to the
front and become leaders are Messrs. Hen
dersou. Crooks, Barnes and Shackleton.
Voting a man a leader in rough ana
tumble Organization like the labor repre-
sentation committee whose meetings may
be attended by perhaps thirty members OF
the new Parliament does not make a man
leader In reality Leaders are born. not
made. and while there are some excellent
fighters among the workingmen recently
elected to Parliament it should be renem-
bered that few Of them will have more
than fighting chance. For it takes years
to learn the ropes in Parliament and the
labor advocates being poor men and en-
tirely dependent upon their unions for
their salaries must of necessity come
pretty nearly taking orders from the or
ganizations which furnish them their means
of living. Hence they become mere repre-
sentatives Of the organizations and are not
foot loose and fancy free to fight whom
they will where they will and when they
will
Among the newly elected labor members
of Parliament who are quite likely to make
a record may be mentioned Mr.. Charles
Duncan the representative OF Barrow-n-
| Furness. lie was educated at a church
school, where according to his own state
ments he was chiefly distinguished as a
| fighter. Hi fathers means enabled him tu
remain in school until he was 1s thus re-
N..fs,a t,r l.
attributes his success to the fact that he
has concentrated his attention upon trade
unlonism and labor questions and the work
OF cooperation. lie is q teetotalleI and he
| says that his watchword in life has been
| Charles Bradlaughs watchword Of "thor-
! ough."
socialist. Mr. Dan Irving, the unsuc-
/ cessful parliamentary candidate for the
/ AccriDgton division, has Just Fued Mr..
| Samuel Hargreaves and Mr. James Dixon
! for alleged libel during the municipal cleo
tions IN Burnley last November Mr.. Shee
X. c., for the defendants. in criticiziac
Mr.. Irving's public utterances. asked
| while YOU were a member Of the Burnley
| town council were you not reported II
! have said that Mr.. Carnegie had murdered
some OF his work people. and that YOU
would he less than a man if you took
!
! to a free library proposal
Replying Mr. Irving said that he ha6
employed the word murderer in the same
sense as IL was sometimes applied to Mr.
Gladstone when spoken Of as the ''mur
derer'' of General Gordon.
Again he was asked: Did Won say ths
the liberal party were the most sanctimo
NOUS hypocrites on the face of the earth p
! To this, as well as to the question, "DiS
you say that their whited sepulchres con
cesled rottenness insde?" Mr.. Irving re
piled with an Affirmative answer
Then how much worse is the tor,
party?" asked Mr.. Shes,
1 ~ never ineF vita th.' same hypocrisy II
the tory party rs Ted Mr.. Irving "Th.
liberal Part has NJ It's cabinet man .sh.
talkeo of sending cabinet ministers e
heaven ny chemical parcel post. aud for tn,
associates of such "A man to charge me un
truthtully as they did during the parlia
mcntary campaign with advocating tn
use of bombs and violence was hypocrisy
who was the cabinet minist&?" inquire,
Mr.. Justice Granthan.
John Burns, replied the plaintiff.
The jury returned verdict for the dc
PENDANTS.