The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-10-14
.ENGLAND'S POLITICAL
CAULDRON BOILING
Labor Leaders Holding Conferences
Cabinet Members Address,
ing Meetings
Lloyd-George Determined to Pass
Insurance Bill Into Law During
Autumn Session.
Home Rule Campaign Opened by
John Redmond by Rousing Meet
ing at Manchester.

The last week was full of noise and
fury, but whether it signifed anything
remains to be seen. The labor men
held conferences, the churchmen held
congresses, and several OF the cabinet
ministers addressed meetings or wrote
letters, while every foreign secretary
in Europe has been pouring forth dis
patches. Out of all this hurly-burly,
this is my summing up, says II. p.
OConnor in his London letter to the
Chicago Tribune.
Italy is conducting the war in such
a genteel, benevolent and leisurely
fashion that the decisive moment for a
remote. Public opinion in England and
the other countries runs still strong
against Italy, but at the same time the
general disposition is to settle down to
the acceptance Of an accomplished
fact, and probably the one question
finally left for meditation is not wheth-
er Italy will hold Triroli, but whether
it will pay for it or get it for nothing.
The Portuguese authorities in London
profess to laugh at the royalst DEM
uustration, but evidently some serious
iEsurrection was attempted. and,
while the cities remain staunchly re-
publican, the country regions, espe-
cially the Spanish frontier, remain
royalist. Turning to home affairs. the
labor conferences elected Il moments
GUS declaration against general
strike or any form of French syndi-
caism.
lnsurgent Doctrines Feared.
All the older heads Of the trades
union movements are seriously alarm
ed at the spread of the insurgent doc
trincs and the possibility of serious
and widespread reaction among the
public against all labor demonstra-
tons and movements. But the young
strepcrous and this week drove out Of
office some of the veterans, and al
though the strike fever has somewhat
abatcd, yet there is Il serious prospect
of II big strike Of coal miners. and the
frightened houschoders, expecting a
bitter winter, already are filling their
cellars with coal supplies.
Another prominent feature OF the
week was the growing and widening
breach between liberalism and labor
The Scotch liberals, resenting the at
tempt Of the laborites to lose any i'm
portant bye election ut kimarnock by
Il third candidate now threaten to run
liberals against the laborites in some
Of the Scotch constituencies which
now are allowed to fall into labor
hands. One of these seats is in Dun
dee, where the laborite for the last two
| elections cordially worked with Win
ston Churchill. Now Churchill favors
| the running Of a second liberal candi-
date.
This pronouncement is made more
| serious by two currents running
| against Churchill and the ministry in
| the labor ranks. In the first place the
| Iaboritcs still protest loudly against
the employment of the military in the
recent railway strikes and, second
many oppose the passage Of Lloyd
| Georges insurance bill unless certain
labor amendments are accepted
Lloyd -Gcorge and the other cabinet
ministers reply by rciterating with
stronger language their determination
to pass the insurance bill into law
during the autumn session and thus
this autumn session opens up a vista
of big uncertainties.
Peril to Lloyd George.
The united support Of the liberals
and the Irish, the tories hesitation to
adopt an attitude of open hostility and
Lloyd Georges dcxterity will probably
pull him and the bill through, but the
situation is not without peril to Lloyd
George to the insurance bill and to
the existence of the ministry.
The one point which stands out
brightly in the surrounding twilight is
the Home Rule campaign. John Red.
| mond started this week with biz
speech and reception in Manchester.