Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-02-15
StateSmanIike Vision and
Courage Displayed by Brit
iSh Leaders at Nottingham
Conference,
SCHEME COMPRISES
VAST ECONOMIC FIELD
Educational Reform in British
Isles One Of Questions to
Which Party Asks Close
Study
(By Arnold Bcnncft.)
tThe International News Bureau,
Inp l

tThe International News Bureau,
Inc)
There has just been issued a pub
lieation of first-rate interest and first
rate social Importance, which every
body can afford to buy, which cvery-
everybody of average intelligence
would read with pleasure. II is serir
Gus but not dull, short but not scrap
! py, broad but not superficial. II con-
Germs the individual lives of all OF
us. Yet undertake that If you went
into booksellers shop TO buy It, in
ten cases out OF twenty the booksell-
er would not even have heard of il,
in nineteen cases out of twenty he
would not have 1t in stock, in fifteen
cases out of twenty he would not be
able to supply IL without delay OF
from four to seven days Tens OF
thousands of people will not read this
publication simply because they can
not get hold of 1t easily enough It's
price is one penny. II may be OBJ
tained from the offices Of the Labour
Party. No. 1, victoria-street. s. w.
/, London. It's title is "Labour and
the New Social Order" And IL Is o
draft report on the Reconstruction
policy Of the Labour party submitted
at the Nottinsham Conference.
hope this is clear
Whole Policy of Laboar.
The document, however is more
than a report. II amounts to man.
ifesto of the whole policy of Iabour.
And as the official manifesto OF a
political party it Is, In my experience,
unique. III any other modern politic-
al party has ever issued a statement
OF aims so complete, or half so COM
plete, / should like to see IL for l
have not seen IT, Nor have ever
seen party manifesto of any kind
which exhibited at once such cour-
age, such statesmanlike vision, and
such technical ability as here display
ed. The Labour party has set pace
in propaganda which seems likely 70.
"spread-eagle the field" And
should greatly like to know what the
Liberal party is going to do about it.
As the pamphlet is in itself able
example of compression. 1t is extre-
mely difficult to summarise. Who can
make an extract of extract Of beef?
| must therefore be content to indi-
cate rather than state It's contents.
They are divided under four heads.
The first head is the Universal EN-
forcement of National Minimum
Wage. This principle has been nib
bled at in all kinds of Acts, and the
exceptions to 1t have heretofore been
scandalous. The I.abour party is out
to make 1t universal and incidentally
to make proper conditions of indus
try universal, so that every citizen
willing to work shall have, in good
times and in bad times, the requisites
of healthy life and worthy citizen.
ship. The principle. of course, In
volved tho prevention OF unemploy-
| ment by the state, when the state
falls in such prevention, state-insur-
| ance against unemployment. Tho
| manifesto perceives that the first
pinch will come with rehabilitation,
| and 1t gives special attention to O pol
Icy of demobilization pointing out
! that on this grave question the pres
| ent government has formulated no
plan and come to no decision and
neither the Liberal nor the Conserya-
| tive party has apparently deemed the
| matter worthy of agitation"
Democracy and Industry.
| The second head is the Democratic
Control OF Industry, and under this
| head are demanded the immediate
naturalization of railways. mines,
and the production of electrical pow
er; to be followed by the nationaliz-
alton Of land, and, later, by the ''pro-
gressive elimination" of the capitalist
| individual or joint-stock) from the
control of industry" The manifesto
makes the demand largely on the
| ground of the need OF scientific or
| ganization towards an increased pro-
ductivfty, and the prevention of waste
| due to "a jostling crowd OF separate
private employers apprehend that
the Labour party's troubles will gath
sr chiefly under this head, for as n
capitalist said to me the other day,
| Capitalists are very adaptable"
They are. This section is full Of sug-
| gestive sentences. For example:
There Is no reason why coal should
fluctuate in price any more than rail-
way fares And indeed there Ia not.
Also: THE people will be extremely
foolish II they ever allow their indis-
I pensabe industries to slip back into
the unfettered control of private cap
italists who are, actually at the In
stance of the government itself. nov
| nil tx,i ft.aI Il kxSt A.. t,zkA
monopolist trusts. which may pres-
entity become as RUTHLESS In their "