The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-05-02
BRITISH LAB0R|TES
READY TO REBUILD
English Unionists Offer Radical
Political Program to. Recon-
struct Society.

Declaring that RECKLESS individual.
ism with it's %protiteering and wage.
slavery" has received it's death blow,
the British Labor party has just for
INFLATED a splendid plan for recon.
struction after the wal which prom.
tses vast social changes in England.
The British Labor party proposes
to adopt this plan as it's platform and
to place candidates for the House OF
Commons in the field in every con.
stituency in Great Britain. It al.
ready is predicted by shrewd politl.
cal observers that the Labor Party
may carry the next election even
though the Liberals and Conssrva.
tives combine against them.
People Must Make Plans.
The British Labor party believes
that a vastly better civilization will
arise Phoenix-like from the ruins OF
war, but 1t also believes that unless
the people begin now to work out the
right plans for construction, that
the great capitalists and other selfish
interests will endeavor to abolish GOV.
eminent ownership and to restore Ia.
dustrial autocracy. The British Labor
party wants more than certain speci.
dc reforms; It wants Z new founda.
ton for society.
The New Republic, one Of the most
thoughtful magazines Of America,
calls the British Labor plan 1.-The most
mature and carefully formulated pro.
gram ever put forth by a responsible
political party"
Like N~onpartIsan League Program.
In this connection it is interesting
to point out that the proposals Just
announced BY the British Labor party
are substantially in accord with the
program adopted by the National
Nonpartisan league which will be
voted on In at least eight states al
The coming elections. ii is plain to
Ill thinking men that the wal haa
marked the commencement Of . new
era In society, that the whole world
is In q state of social ferment, and
that this ley wine of democracy
cannot much longer be contained in
the old casks Of outworn political
and industrial institutions.
"The people will be extremely fool
fsh," says the British Labor party
IT they aver allow their indispen,
able industries to slip back into un,
fettered control of private capital
lists" The platform demands govern.
ment ownership of the means of com,
munication and transportation, includ
Ing the great steamship lines and the
same management Of GOAL and power
production. It wants the great en-
tates that levy tribute on the people
and industry of the nation broken
up. 1t proposes better housing condi
lions.
All Entitled 70 Happiness.
Every man willing to work should
be provided with work, and his life
and health should be protected in that
work. There should be accident
health and unemployment insurance.
There should be a constructive plan
Tor demobilizing the munition work
orS and troops after the wal that all
may obtain the employment fol-
which they are fitted. Every member
OF the community should have a GER
tain minimum Of the requisites fos
healthy life and citizenship. The tai
burden on labor and industry should
30 liEhtened and that on vested
wealth and special privilege greatly
Increased.
A World Wide Demand.
This platform Of one of the most
powerful parties in Great Britain, has
more than local application. II
every country who're the voice Of the
people Is heard, practically the same
measures are demanded. They arr
demanded not only by labor but BY
the small business men and profes.
sional men and by farmers, in fact
By Ill who lose by the monopoly OF
transportation and natural resources
and by the domination which these
unonopolies exercise owe the gov.
eminent. They are demanded by
those who see that We must have
industrial democracy Or be ruined by
the burden of the war They are
demanded by those wac insist that
The lessons learned 70 far from the
war shall not be lost.
Nuu n0EM ME NcEnl CccI "