The Connecticut labor news., 1923-12-29
LABOR CONTROL REVOLUTIONARY
 TO ENGLSHMEN
Ascendancy of Progressive Policies l Is Blow to Old Conservative Regime.
DUE TO JOB SHORTAGE
Governing Classes" Lost Ground When Baked By Post War
 Problems.

London, Dec. 28.-The English revolution seems to be under way. This is no revolution reeeking with blood and bullets It is a constitu- tional revolution, quiet and orderly in accordance with English traditions. It is a revolution of ballots rather than bullets.
 The Labor Party has been return ed to the House of Commons with nearly 200 members. That is the out ward manifestation of the English revolution.
 The Labor Party-called the So- cialist Party by its enemies-stands for progress in England, new ways and new means, methods which are revolutionary, and the Labor Party and its program have been given a tremendous endorsement.
 In any country other than England the success of the Labor Party would merely mark a chance in sentiment and dissatisfaction with the govern ing party, but in staid old England 1t marks a revolution.
 Blasts Tradition.
 For centuries England has been have voted the Unionist or Liberal ticket because it was "the thing to do." It always had been done, and it always should be done. Now English sentiment has taken a revolutionary turn, and men whose ancestors have voted Unionist for centuries have taken the leap and voted Labor.
 Unemployment IS probably the reason back of this revolutionary change in English politics. For five years English workingmen have suf fered fro munemployment. Privation has mounted, and the net result has been that the great mass of English people have begun to lose their time honored faith and respect for the governing classes, and there is a dis tinct class in England which has been born to govern.
 Three postwar governments have failed to alleviate the suferings of the unemployed to any appreciable extent The Coalition Government, with Lloyd George at its head, failed. The Bonar Law Government failed, failed.
 The recent debacle of the Unionist Party in the genera lelection was un- doubtedly not so much due to ami mostly toward Baldwin's tariff policy as against his failure to go before the country with a convincing program for unemployment relief.
 Labor In Control.
 Labor now holds the whip hand in Parliament, and it will undoubtedly come into power before many months have passed, and it will be truly evolutionary Government-but revo l1itionary in accordance with the Con- >titution.
 The Labor leaders sense the spirit of revolt abroad in England and know that if they are to succeed they must resort to drastic and revolu- tionary methods. Other party leaders have failed to sense this spirit and have relied upon the docility of Eng fish voters to support them, for the simple reason that they have always given their support in the past
 The next few months will undoubt- edly see many of England's oldest traditions tumbling into oblivion. The governing class, as it has been known for centuries, will either reconstruct itself along more progressive lines or it will crumble and fade away.
 Only drastic measures can stem this constitutional English revolu- tion. Will any party outside of the Labor Party have the courage to re- sort to drastic measures?