The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1911-04-23
SOCIALISTS WILL
CHANGE CAMPAIGN
No Candidate of the Party
Will Now Run Against
Radical Candidate.

Especial Cable from the international
News Servtce)
London. April 22.-The Socialists of
England have decided to change their
political tactics during the coming
year. At the annual conference Of the
Social.Democratic party to be held at
Coventry the executive committee will
lay before the delegates three resolu-
tions indicating the policy To be fol-
lowed by the party in the nearest fn-
turc.
Realizing that as long as the present
radical government is, 10 certain ex-
tent. fighting the battles of labor
against the uitra-conservative Tories
and the House of Lords, the executive
committee has decided to propose
resolution that the use of the vote Is
not "a matter Of principal. but a ques-
tion Of tactics. and as IL Is of more i'm
portance 10 defeat a conservative can
didatc will In the future he put up
against radical except In election
districts where Socialist victory is
absolutely certain. In every case here
after Socialist voters will receive In
structions from headquarters how to
cast their votes at the poll.
Another resolution deals with the
question of the organization of trade
unions. The preamble states that 1t
IS desirable that every opportunity
should be seized of decreasing work
ing hours and increasing wages, and
urges that an amalagamation should
be brought about of all existing trade
unions in each industry.
On the question Of government in
surance against invalidity and un-em'
ploymeut. Mr.. Ben Tillett Is to move a
resolution opposing the government
measure which interferes with the
voluntary principle Of trade union ad-
ministration. AS Socialists, they call
ed on the government to include all
grades of labor affected by seasonal.
irregular or casual work in any mea.
sure promoted ostensibly to. aid the
unemployed.
The first installment OF the great
scheme for the improvement of the
Port of London is about to be taken I'm
hand. The scheme which has been
adopted In principle is for the con-
struction of the South Albert Dock;
and IL Is for the purpose of this pro-
ject that the Port of London Is now
making an issue of $1O,0O0,00O stock.
The proposed new dock the cost of
which is estimated at nearly $22,0OO.-
900 will be designed to accommodate
the largest ships afloat or projected.
The entrance lock will have a maxi.
mum length of 1000 feet, a width of
10 feet and a depth of water over
the sill of 4S feet. The entrance will
be $50 feet long, but will be capable
OF being extended by a caisson. The
water area of the dock will be 60 acres
affording "a quayage of $500 lineal feet
with depth of 441a feet.
There will be new dry dock 1000
feet long 40 feet wide, and 80 feet
deep on the blocks corresponding prac-
tically in accommodation to the en-.
trance lock. II is expected that the
accommodation in this dock will rapid
ly be taken up as one-third OF that
provided was actually being negotiated
for by great shipping line at the
time the Improvement scheme was
published.
American visitors coming to London
this summer must not be too surpris-
ed II they discover that Londoners
have taken to wearing their hair la
Buffalo Bill.
n VIC do adopt the long flowing locks
beloved by the American chief of
scouts, IL will not be from mere choice,
but simply because our tonsorial ar
lists. for this high sounding American
name for a barber has found favor
with the wielders Of razors and scis.
sors here. have refused to trim our
hair.
Americans should not make fun Of
us n this calamity should happen for
they are to blame in the first place.
why did some darned Yankee invent
the safety razor? And why did he af-
terwards advertise 1t so well that we
now nearly all use it?
Hinc lilac lacrimae' Our BARRIERS
have long been grumbling and now
they are about to form an organization
that will make things uncomfortable
for self-shavers generally,
If the correspondence in the Hair.
dressers' Weekly Journal faithfully
reflects the views of the BARRIERS the
man who shaves himself is certainly
booked for troublous times. For the
Cry on one powerful section of the hair
dressing fraternity is. NO shave, no
haircut" which means that If you
shave yourself the barber may either
refuse To trim your hair or may charge
YOU double or treble the ordinary tar.
ifi.
within the last few years." said
my Fleet Street tonsorialist to me this
morning. as | sat In his chair to have
my hair trimmed, the safety razor
has robbed me of nearly half of my
best customers. | will not say the
operation Is as satisfactory as If the
barber had performed IL. Yet they
nre enabled In shave. with "A minimum