Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-14
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For the Schools
By CHARLES P. STEWART

When a labor leader gets himself
up in court dress, with knee breeches
and white silk stockings, to eat at
the same table with a king, it's open
to question whether the labor leader
hasn't conceded more to the conven-
tons than the king has.
And to read farther that the hos
tess jekingly asked the leader If his
hose were ION straight" gives the
distinct impression that her deliber-
ate idea was to make a goat of
him. -
At any rate, such is the story news
dispatches tell about President
Clynes OF the English National
Union of General Workers, General
Secretary Thomas of the railroad
mems union and Philip Snowden.
who, with their wives, were invited
to dinner at Lord Astor's house in
London last week, to meet King
George and Queen Mary.
The correspondents idea seems to
be that a tremendous honor was
done them, but 1t sounds a good deal
more as If they were being shown
OFF, 'v
Parenthetically, it's fair to say
that the suggestion attributed to
Lady Aston that her labor guests
pull UP their stockingss' and her
query as to whether these same
Workings were ION straight" almost
= certainly were ONE correspondents
invention. 1t isn't q bit likely she'd
have been SO iH-bred.
The fact that such men could be
prevailed on to rig up insmasquerade
costumes was sensation enough
good deal more Of a sensation than
that they were deemed worthy to
dine with the king, who'd have been
a little tactful, anybody'd think, If
he'd intimated that it would be all
right for them to coma in ordinary
store clothes. 80
American Ambassador Harvey was
there, too, also in short pants, but
he's done it before. .
What VIII Mac Wear
The name of j. Ramsay MacDon-
aid, paFllsmentar leader of the
English Labor party, is not mention
ed among those present at Lord
Astor's. those Ise4.
Macdonald has the reputation of
being very hard-boiled. Perhaps he
baked at short pants. It seems as
if there must have been some such
hitch else how does it happen that
he was overlooked when such lesser
lights as Clynes, Thomas and Snow
den were not? -
But the dispatches say Macdonald
has an Invitation from the king him
self to chew at Buckingham Palace
March Is. The question is, will he
go in short pants?
Gains for Labor Party
A good deal of comments been
caused by the defeat of Conservative
candidates, in what had been con-
sidered Conservative, constituencies
In recent English Parliamentary by
elections.
q These English by-elections simply
are elections to fill vacancies. The
Conservative defeats mean that An
drew Bonar Law, the party's leader
ana premier besides. has lost three
supporters in Parliament, which is
quite a black eye. considering that
his majority was mall anyway.
And in all three cases the Labor
Party won. sre2 e
The Labor Party, it's interesting
30 note, is the strongest group in
Parliament, next to the Conserva-
Gives. So if Bonar Jaw should lose
his majority entirely the labor lead
ed would become premier automati-
eally. But he wouldn't have a ma
}ortty either, so he couldn't last. long.
There'd have to be another general
election. For a little while, however,
Ramsay Macdonald, the ultra-radi-
cal, would be prime minister.
Ruhr Situation
Chancellor Cuno of Germany has
got around to the declaration that
his country cant consider any ar