The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-08

their effort to assure government pro lection and care for the wage work unemployment and destitution from which they would otherwise surely suffer as g, consequence of the war.
 British Labor Statesmen.
 Not agreeing with the attitude thus taken, J. Ramsay Macdonald re- signed his chairmanship of the Par liamentary Labor Party. John Burns also resigned as head of the local government board in the cabinet, when Lord More1ey and e. T. Trev- elyan withdrew on account of their opposition to the war. The Daily Herald, which George Lansbury edits in the interests of industrial union ism, continues it's protest against the war, although in somewhat modified formJ since it actually began. Just before the declaration, in an editorial entitled Down With the War" 1t a1- luded to the much talk and many resolutions in recent years about the international solidarity of labor.
 eff the protest against war is to be made effective,'' it declared, those workers who have in their power the control Of transport and communica- tion must refuse to allow them to be used for an end which will cause un- told human suffering" Acting on this or similar advice the Welsh miners at Cardiff refused unanirn ouslS to ac- cede to the request of the British admiralty that two holidays be cur tailed in order to mine coal urgently needed for the navy. In so doing they justified themselves thus: we do not consider it necessary for de- fensive purposes to ask the miners to work on these two holidays, and we decline to encourage, or in any way countenance, the policy of active in terYention of this country in the pres ent European conflict
 action PYnifaTnPnt parliament. A ministerial party member declared in the House of Commons:' eff those men had acted in that way in Germany, they would with. The state should take some ac- ton against those who melted the miners not to go to work"
 Trade Disputets Settled.
 Subsequently,, the Miners Fedora ton in South Wales decided that all existing questions, including those re- lating to non-unionisn, should be dropped and declared that they were willing to work at any time, day or night. The Scottish coal mine own CTS informed their miners that in view of the existing situation, they would not proceed with their claim for re- duction in wages In line with, this subordination of all differences to the national defense, almost all pending disputes have been settled or dropped by the London building trades, the marine engineers, electricians, boiler makers, ship-repairers, and even the transport and dockers' unions. Lists of these settlements are printed and editorially emphasized in the Lon don papers.
 Meanwhile, at the call of their home Hand workers all over the world are laying down their tools to go back to their mother countries to take up arms to kill each otoher. Surely, for the time being. at least, their class consciousness is superseded by their national loyalty, and yet before this war is over, or as a result of it, national loyalty may be subordinated to the supremacy of race-conscfous- ness. But beyond all wars, behind the clouds and darkness, above the valley of the shadow of death, there still shines the fixed star-'HThe par liament of mans the federation of the WorId-''