The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-02
BRITISH TRADE UNIONS
PREPARE FOR STIFF FIGHT

LONDON, Aug 31.-As the par
liamentary recess draws near the
most significant development in Brit
ish politics is the effort being made
by the British trade unions to in
crease their political influence. They
have reached the stage at last where
the two chief parties, instead of act
ing independently or in combination
against them, are outbidding one an
other for their favor and support
not that the bids are made public or
with the definiteness of an auc-
tioneer's sale. The competition be-
tween the ministerialists and the
opposition is an underground affair,
with many of the characteristics of
an intrigue on both sides. But of
the fact itself there is no doubt.
To the trade union leaders, now
preparing for the congress at Bath,
herman S three land measures is of
little account. They do not care
much what happens to the Roseberry
scheme for extending the English
bill to Scotland and multiplying the
number of small proprietors. They
point out that no such measures as
the government has proposed can go
far toward drawing out of the big
and congested centers of manufac-
ture the surplus population.
what we want" they say, lis
work for the unemployed secured, af
ter the methods of the Macdonald
unemployed BILL and a five shilling
pension for everybody over 65 years
of age. At Bath they will show the
country, it is expected, that they have
clean-cut program and a resolute
intention. This advance of the trade
unions toward political power is the
most interesting phenomenon in the
history of the United Kingdom. Ire
land is involved as deeply as Britain
in the plans of the trade union lead
ers. For the moment the socialists
are blowing the trade union trum-
pets, though the trade union leaders
repudiate the principle of socialism.
Far-seeing Frenchmen perceive
grave dangers to the European con-
cert in the spread of the Moroccan
disorders. At this moment the Paris
government is acting within the lin
it's of the convention concluded at
lgeciras-an agreement which in its
final draft owed more to Henry
White, the leading American dele
gate, than to any other one man. The
action of the French and Spanish
governments in bombarding the ma
tive quarter of Casablanca and land
ing marines is police work. 1t has
the full sanction of Emperor will
liam, who may be said to be morally
responsible for the outbreak of
tribesmen, never forgetful of his eel
ebrated speech at Tangier to the sui
tan. But police work is one thing
and punitive expedition, such as
the Paris press clamors for and such
as M. HanotauX advises, is another.
Hanotaux, declaring that the pres
ent situation justifies the policy he
followed at the foreign office, calls
for an abandonment of the program
roads open, he says: Make common
cause with the sultan or tear up the
pact and send $4,000 men
to Fee. Apparently the average
Frenchman thinks the $4,000 men
can be sent without tearing up the
agreement with the powers. The av-
erage Frenchman believes that the
United States, Britain, Russia and
italy would indorse the punitive ex-
petition.
But back of the clamor for punish
ment is the hope, thrilling to the
French colonial propagandist, that,
once in Fee for the ostensible pur-
pose of temporary occupation, the