Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-06-30
Copyright, 1919, By the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)


London, June %, 1919: 1--WE
shall have for labor in ENGLAND de-
clared Lloyd George in his campaign
speeches after the armistice, "a new
heaven and a near earth" So, con-
sidering that water still is running
down hill, the sun rising in the east
and men have to work for a liVlngi
the new heaven and the new earth
are more OF less of a joke in England.
furs, silver, rugs. tailored clothes
and jewelry never was so high-Eot
during the war, and while the price
of food was. put down by the con
troller during the spring it is rising
again, n it is announced here that
Great Britain will have to go through
another awful winter on American
bacon, which is so thoroughly sailed
flat B%ritishers regard famine as a
mild alternative.
Wages, OF course, are high, much
higher than they were during the
war, but rents and railroad fares and
bus fares and all things hat buys
with wages have gone UP with wages.
Instead of standing tiptoe OF the mis-
ty mountain tops to see the dawn in
a new heaven, British labor is really
tiptoeinE- Ito keep from drowning in
the food of high prices. Yet, in the
itiA0SL VI IL All Lle new heaven duu
the new earth. really are coming in a
slow thorough going, rather clumsy
British fashion. And the purpose of
this article will be to tell something
OF the way it is coming.
Is An Inferior TYNE.
To that\ end we must know some
thing about the British labor move
ment in terms that Americans ma
understand-that is comparative
terms. First, about the British work
ing man; he is physically IN men,
tally much below the American
working man. And it 10 not the Brit
tsher's fault. 1t is Great Britain's
fault. For generations she has hous-
ed her workingrnan badly. fed him
poorly, educated him miserably and
neither the body nor the mind, TAX.
en- as a class, that the American
working man has,
The British mass have no great
clear vision Of their new heaven and
earth. The ruling classes fool them
easily. Their one overwhelming i'm.
mediate want. for which they are
willing to trade their hopes of heav-
en- anu earth, is beer. They viii
abandon any pursuit in business OF
politics to get more beer. The gov.
eminent during the wal Shut dowr
on the consumption Of beer; 1T al.
workingman and his wife and chill.
dren turned to whiskey and rurn ant
gin instead.
The temperance movement tina,
was expected to follow the beel
famine did not appear. And in the
midst of a real change of the funda'
mentals of the British Industrial sfs
tenn, when labor should be kedhl,
alive to it's interests. the cIamor fol
fjustiies the contention of the uppe,
classes that the lower classes IL
Britain deserve about what they get
But nevertheless they are going tt
get much more than they have beer
getting, and hat right soon. Ant
the reason why they are going to ge
a larger share in affairs. industrial
n political is because of their lead
ership.
It's much higher In intelligence,
and un~selhshness than the radica
leadership in America, The labol
leadership in England is the keenes
in the world. So the labor movement
in England Is leading the world. 4
considerable per cent of the labol
leadership in England is what W,
know as the highbrow.
Beer Iner Aim In lAde.~
In America, labor will not stand fol
highbrow leadership. Perhaps thi.
is because American labor, compared
with the worlds tabor is tremendous
ly highbrow itself. No other labor
unit on earth is as well educated
we'll informed. and clear visioned a.
ours. A beer famine might foo
+, some labor in the eastern seaboarc
! states into losing sight Of tho MAR