The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-29
LIBERAL AND LABOR
 PARTIES AT WAR Dundee Liberals Want Two
 Candidates WAR USED AS WEDGE Sensational Chapter in Secret History Is Way George Put Down Great Railway Strike-Star and
 Garter Hotel Sold
WAR USED AS WEDGE
Ky PAIL LAMBETH

London, October 2S.-(Special.) )-Signs are not lacking that the friendly feel ing which has long subsisted between the liberal and labor parties is badly strained Whether the strain will reach the breaking point remains to be seen.
 There has been section of the labor party, the radical socialists, of whom Kier Hardie is type, which has never been very strong for the alliance, just as there has been a strong section of the liberals, the more conservative, who have chafed under the working agree ment with the socialists. The prompt and drastic measures taken by the gov- ernment to preserve order during the recent strikes gave the radical socialists handle and they succeeded in putting up labor candidate in Kilmarnock against w. c. G. Gladstone.
 Though MT. Gladstone was triumphantly elected the action of the laborites en- ragged the liberals, and it is not at all improbable that war will be declared all along the line.
 If this should be done it will give cour- age to the demoralized unionists and make the next general election a matter of doubt.
 | William Churchill sits in parliament for l Dundee. His colleague is Alex Wilkie, 1 laborte.
 At the last two elections the liberal 1 and labor parties agreed to divide several 1 double member seats such as Dundee and Leicester, where if two liberals and two labor candidates had stood the unionists might have won. In Bow and Bromley last December, MT. Lloyd George actually advised the liberals to vote for MT. Lans- | bury, socialist.
 Mr Churchill, in a recent speech, said 1 he understood the Dundee liberal com mittee was considering whether d second l Liberal candidate should be adopted and 1 brought into the field with him. They were quite entitled to take into consd- eration the recent by-election at Zilmar- mock, and he circumstances which had manifested themselves in that contest. No doubt they were further entitled to consider that it was no good pretending that liberalism was socialism. It was not and it never could be- Socialists l wished to wreck, while liberals wished 1 to rebuild. The matter was entirely for l the association 10 decide and If. they came to the conclusion that a second can l didate should be brought forward they would have to work in particularly strenuous manner in order to obtain an effective and triumphant result for their | intentions
 How the matter is regarded by the la- bor party may be gathered from the fol- 1 lowing expressions of opinion from leas- ing labor members of parliament:
 MT. Ramsay Macdonald: 'I have no views except that both liberals and labor i must do what suits them best. If the Dundee liberals want two candidates, let them have them Labor has defeated them 1 before and can do so again.
 Mr Philip Snowden: Labor has no right to complain of liberal opposition. Each party must do what best suits It's purposes"
 MT. will Crooks: Labor has tough, | forlorn hopes before. Threats won't pre- vent labor from fighting to elect it's own 1 representatives independently.'
 Mr Wardlos '1f the liberal govern ment is desirous of going out of office, and remaining out, let it continue to follow MT. Churchill's lead"
 MT. George Lansbury: Specialists and labor men will continue to wage uneeas- ing war against monopoly and special privilege despite the threats of MT. 1 Churchill Threats prove bad ease and | weakness It may be that cooler heads on both sides will succeed in healing the breach; if not there are likely to be lively times in British politics before long.