South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-30
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP
AND PROHIBITION
TO BE DISCUSSED
British Labor Party Leaders
Will Debate Leading
Problems of Day.
BY FLOYD MACGRIFF.

LONDON, May 29.-Public owner
ship and control Of the liquor trade
regarded By British prohi5iuonists
as a trade movement 20 unload their
properties. By the liquor trade as
the first step toward prohibition,
and by the workers as "a cOmpro-
mise between prohibition and profit
eering-promises 10 be one Of the
most warmly debated subjects at the
Labor party's June convention.
This public ownership and control
proposal Is supported by the Nation
al Amalgamated Union Of Shop AS
sistants, WarehOusemeu and Clerks;
by the British Iron, Steel and Kin
dred Trades Association; By the
General Union Of Textile Workers;
by the Railway Clerks association,
and b. various local labor bodies.
Local option.
Coming local option In various
Scottish districts and the Carlisle
experiment in reducing hours of
liquor sale and number Of saloons
should be watched without prejudice
several local labor parties urge.
Next 70 liquor lack Of housing
accommodation, despite grandiOse
schemes put forward by the govern
L j
agenda on domestic affairs. Some
ten schemes are put forward which
their sponsors declare would ease or
remedy the situation il adopted by
the government.
Labor Dissatisfied.
labor is dissatisfied with the cleo
toral laws. judging by the number
OF reform proposals, including pro-
portional representation. More high
schools also are wanted, the Swan
sea Labor association declaring only
"A small part Of the nations youth
has access to such education. Free
education for all is likewise urged
by Southwark, London.
Reformation Of the nations life
insurance scheme for workers. COM
pensatiOn In accidents, assistance OF
hospitals hard has by the war. and
better public health service 10 the
workers Is demanded by Glasgow
Trades and Labor Council.
AS TO unem plOyment various reso-
buttons Will urge the government 10
provide work and union rate OF pay
for all men and women unable 10 get
jobs. Wandsworth London) urges
the unemployed be set To work build
ing houses.
Campaign Urged.
campaign for a forty-fOur week, as
against the Trades Unions Congress
decision to fight for a maximum
week OF fOrty-four hours.
Direct action as a labor party
policy Is urged by the MarylebOne
organization. which declares the
time is approaching when tho
workers must be prepared for a
conflict between themselves and the
state, since industries are coming,
like the railways, TO be nationahzed,
and any labor fight should be by all
rather than one section of the work
ers." The independent labor party
offers a resolution for establishment
OF the soviet on a modified plan.
Land Problems.
AS 70 land, always an irritant in
British political life, the National
Agricultural Laborers' and Rural
workers union offers the simple
remedy Of abolition of private ewn-
ership of the land. the state taking il
over. The Reading local urges con-
fiscation Of the land, while the indie
pendent labor party, in It's national
izatiOn or the land resolution, says
specialization OF the land IS the very
foundation OF the cooperative com
mOnwealth," which Il is seeking TO
establish. The Independents, Incl
dentally represent a very small part
OF the workers.
Railway clerks demand that the
railways be purchased by the state
straight of. other local organiza-
tons call for naturalization Of cleo
tricity banking, gas. water and
transport services. All appear 70
want more democratic control in in
dustry; one suggests guild socialism
10 be the only remedy for existing
unrest.
These are some Of the more impOr-
tant topics that viii be debated for
four days I'm June.