The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-03-23

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matter deep study. This is the frs,
! OF the three articles Of the series on
the subject. The other two will be
! printed in subsequent issues.
Is 1t Laborism Or Revolutionism:
The Labor party of Great Britain
has now under consideration a pro-
gram which can only be character.
lied as revolutionary. This program
although not yet officially accepted is
! already attracting world wide atten-
/ ton. While it is more or less social.
istic and more or less revolutionary
it is in complete contrast in many par
ticulars with the labor evolutionary
program, and it differs widely even
from the revolutionary program at
j which the Socialists of France and
Germany theoretically aim.
y The importance Of this new and
deliberate proposal of revolution is
almost universally recognized, espe-
| cially by those who are in. sympathy
either with it's proposed changes in
Great Britain, or with its peace pro-
gram. The proposed program was
printed in full by number of news
! papers, including the New York Eve
| ul1S MAIL, WHICH says:
! This document is a highly impor-
tant contribution to the history of the
world-hardly less important than the
Russian revolution itself. The British
labor program reads the doom of the
existing order in Great Britain Just
as distinctly as the Russian revolu-
tionary program read the doom of
czarism."
1T is at the prevention of these ills
=. Of society-most of them patiently
preventable-thatt the program of the
British Labor party is aimed. In its
| clear-cut provisions for constructive
action it is the greatest and most sig
! niacant document that British hands
have written since the Magma
| Charta.''
Here is a constructive program
which is destined to influence might
! lily the thought of the masses in all
the belligerent nations. It seeks to
F., accomplish all the improvement of
life that the Bolsheviki have attempt
ed to accomplish. But it seeks to
accomplish those results in the only
way in which they can be accomplish
ed-by recognized, intelligent leader
ship"
! The sober and sedate New Repub-
lie used equally strong but widely
! different language about the merits
of the proposed program:
1T is probably the most mature
and carefully formulated program
ever put forth by responsible poll
teal party
ic hn 0f
! criticism of the whole English expe-
rience in social legislation during the
past four genera tons"
1T is the result of a careful dis
elimination between what the state
can and must do in order to bring
about social improvement and what
the contribution must. be of the
workers themselves"
1T is the result of an" adjustment
between many opinions and interests,
whose conflicts in the past have i'm
paired the unity and hampered the
growth of the British labor move
ment."
1T is, consequently, at, once an
historical, a scientific and a political
document which, although it was
worded by a SUBJ committee, was
written as result of the sufferings.
the struggles, the experiments. the
failures, the successes, the aspira-
tions and the thinking of the British
wage-earning class during it's four
generations of conscious develop
ment."
Before passing to the considera-
ton of the program itself, it must be
pointed OUT that the New Republic
creates an erroneous impression in
one particular. It.: is evident from
the proposals Of the program, from it's
form.> and even from its language,