New-York tribune., 1910-10-02
ENGLISH CAMPAIGN PLANS
Leaders Apparently Preparing
for a General Election.
LABOR WAR AIDS LIBERALS
Unionists Unable to Choose a
Leading Issue-Sale of Large
Estates-The Lockout.
TBy Cable to The Tribune,l

London. Oct 1.-The Prime MlillSleI
will return TO London on Monday for
consultation with the whips, and A. j.
RaIfour. after completing his visit TO
Ralmoral will make an important speech
in Scotland. These are the earliest signs
OF q brisk campaign which may be the
rrelude 10 a general election in the mid
ole Of January after six months truce
Mr Balfour is expected TO give 1he
Iruionists a lucid lead on the payment
Of members Of Parliament and the prin-
clple on which land can he taken COM
pulsorily when agreements for purchase
are impossible. He may succeed in re-
storing the party's fighting spirit This
SIS now lacking. for while the political
managers are not prepared for drastic
coupromise on the constitutional ques-
1ion. they ere in no haste for general
election when the times are good and
there arc few complaints Of unemploy-
meRt.
on the other hand. the Liberals are
IN high feather over the practical evil
dence Of fresh coalition with the Labor
party Tory partisans assert that there
las been a deal. and certainly something
las happened behind the scenes since
1he trade union congress at Sheffield
Tho pledge binding Labor members TO
accept the judgment Of the majority has
been abandoned by the socialist organiz-
crs. and this lay at the root of the os-
horne Judgment. What is obviously a
government plan for the payment OF
members has been accepted. and some
compromise Of the existing trade union
charter. based On the fact that the Labor
party is not pIedgebound, will probably
De announced by the Prime Minister.
The government has a definite plan for
dealing with the grievances Of organized
labor and the situation created By the
osborne judgment
The I-nionists do not know what is
their best policy-the 2tariff labor or
land-and this is d serious disadvan-
1age. The decision reached by Lord
Manners. The Dowager Countess Of
lCarnarvon and an increasing number
of tax-ridden landholders that they
must sell their estates TO avoid the bur-
den Of new Ievies tends 10 popularize
David Liovd- Georges policy There
VIII bS 10 iEfh VI pan iiicoSAS NAaSA N-A~
estates are broken up. and apparently
no harm is done. The tenants get land
on easy terms and the land owners re-
Ceive hard cash for the relief Of their
necessities and A clearance Of their
mortgages.
Labor complications are also helping
the Liberal party. as it is more sympa-
shetic than the Tories CA all questions
affecting the working people. The lock-
cut in Lancashire. affecting 10000
workers at once and $4,000 more with
in a few weeks, unless a settlement be
reached. is caused by the Unwillingness
Of the employers union to reopen the
Fern mill with George Howe al his old
1,ost. Arbitration could be brought
about through the good offices of the
Board Of Trade if Howe Were rein
stated, but the employers have persist
ed in excluding him IN vindicauon o1
the right Ia manage their own business
Tsozve acted under the trade unions in
stlrlctiors and not on his own initia-
tive. in refusing TO clean machinery
with new tool and the employers have
made = serious mistake in treating him
a. an individual rebel instead Of the
agent Of a responsible labor association
which cannot repudiate its responsible
7ty Incidents of this sort help 10 bind
t,gcthcr the Liberal and the Labor par