New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-23
a Heated Denunciation.

He nevertheless made a heated denuhcia-
,ion Of the Home Secretary, winston
Churchill. regarding the employment or
soIdiers during the strike He declared
that the department which had played the
most diabolical part during the whole I'M
rest was the Home Office. Mir. Churchilrs
bulletins on the situation, he said were
| "mischievous and inaccurate and the eX-
pressions Of opinion therein not sehslpIe'
their effect being to make the mon more
DESTROYS or continuing the fighting tnan OF
coming TO settlement. ! hope we have
heard the last of these fussy interferences
BIZ persons who do not understand the
nature Of the circumstances Win winch
they are dealing. but who desire To hhu
themselves in the newspapers day by DAY
Mr. Macdonald complained bitterly OF
what he described as "a reckless display
OF military force
Mr.. Churchilrs retort to Mr.. MACEDONIAN
was that il the Llanelly rioters had oeen
left to themselves they would have wrought
more damage and misery in two or three
hours than the whole fifty thousand troops
employed in strike duty. The Home Sec
rotary maintained that the wholesdie EN-
ployment of soldiers was necessary 10 pre-
vent undue loss Of life Everybody mad
heard, he said, that four or hNe persons
had been killed by the military, put hau
not seen how many had been saved by the
troops.
Mr.. Churchill added that II the authors
Of the strike had succeeded In thelr III
tentions they would have brought ABOUT d
catastrophe compared with which the erect
Of n blockade by foreign enemy Woulu
have been almost negligible.
Accuses the Government.
\ lively passage occurred also between
lanes Kier Harde, the SOCIALIST ledue' =
and David Lloyd George, the Chancellor VI
the Exchequer. Mr.. Hardie accused 'ie
government OF taking the side of the rail-
way directors I'm the strike, and sale IL the
government had brought the same pressure
TO bear on the directors as 1t had on''he
men there would have been no strike ne
declared vehemently that the men VINO hdu
been shot down by troops during the strike
were murdered In the interests OF the
capitaIst system" As protest against
the conduct of the government he moved
as an amendment to the motion for ad-
lournment that the House OF Commons au-
iourn to August 90 instead of to OCTOBER ~
Mr. Lloyd George replied that the great
condensation had been put out, but that
there we're still smodering fires here and
there about the country which at any mo-
ment might burst into flame. He declared
he knew nothing which was more likely TO
bring about such disaster, and perhaps
cause the men to fling away what their
leaders had claimed was triumph FOR
them. than such grossly inaccurate state
ments' as had been made by Mr.. Hardie.
The Chancellor said there was mot a
syllable of truth" in the allegations of Mr.
Harde that the government had sided with
the railway directors. lie asserted that 1t
was due TO pressure brought to bear by the
government on the directors that induced
them to meet the representatives of the
men face to face. The government he
added. had used it's whole power to see
that Justice was done both parties TO the
dispute.
Mr.. Lloyd George then referred to a speech
made By Mr.. Harlie. In which he said the
Socialist leader had told a big meeting or
men that the Premier was prepared to
shoot down every striker The Chancellor
stigmatized this charge as baseless and
contemplate.
Mr.. Hardie's amendment 10 the motion to
adjourn was then defeated by vote of 90
to IS
Parliament adjourned to October q.