The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-17
Germany Won't Be Forced, 1
 MacDonaldps Prediction
Another War Would Follow Breakdown Of Ne
 gotiations, British Premier Declares

and negotiating the claims of the men, and. as in the dock affair. insults given to their leaders, were the prelude to these strikes"
 II should not be doing my duty. either to the parlimantery party or to the movement outside, however, if did not mention some aspects of the pres ent industrial unrest which are creat- ing difficulties of very serious character.
 Il hope do not need to give any as surances about backing demands for fair conditions. Some recent develop ments and methods, however. seem in practice and result to be those of mis- chievous Hyndicalist communism. Far from helping the worker or his trade union. they are likely to involve the one in misery and the other in disaster One strike like that which took place at the Wembley exhibition does the working class movement more harm, and inflicts on the wage-earner more misery, than can well be described In the Membley case the blunder was soon rectified, but influences were revealed that must be watched.-
 Opposes Sympathetic Strike
 All my life I have been opposed to the sympathetic strike. It has no prac- 'tical value; it is simply beating the air. It has one sure result-a bitter and binding reaction. It looks so heroically effective in the heat of the battle. and it is/ so subversive. Once the poor miners always had to be in it; now it is the transport men.
 Il know what I am speaking about, when say that as the result of some recent occurrences, the code of law which has protected the workingmen's organization for generations has been ia greater leopard ythan have ever seen it in before ,s...
 Liberty is far more easily destroyed by those who abuse it than by those who oppose it"
 The correspondent ventured to call Mir. MacDonald's attention to criticisms about the labor ministers wearing levee dress, and he took up the sub ject with great spirit.
 .' hear and see that some people are interested in these vanities. he said, T would have forgotten that I pos Fsessed ceremonial suit if I hadn't seen mention of it in the press. What a silly thing it all is have known people who showed their vanity by the clumsiness of their clothes. Tattered anu ICt tiOs a WI tdhi tOhC OL NOiCC, and the religious repetition of Marxian phrases are just as indicative of the man who has sold himself to appear ances as is possession of ceremonial dress, to enable one to attend cere- monies that may be historical parts of ones duties.
 Perhaps it's some defect in me, but regard those who make these criti- cisms, by reason of the emphasis they lay on the matter, as being far more lost to qualities of self-mastery and single minded devotion to the cause of labor, than those who, when occasion demands it, put on ceremonial dress without thinking about it. and in the end put the dress away without troubl- ing about it.
 The premier was looking apprehen- sively at his watch There was un- easy movements outside the door. Drop ping less serious matters, the corre- spondent asked for the premier's views as to the practicability of socialism, after his experience in office. ~
 Socialism is much more than the ex- position of an idea" Mr. Macdonald said. Tt will never succeed unless the idea is worked out in detail. is applied to existing conditions and habits, and is used for the purpose of changing the evils of today into a state IneTe iRsgQi- fornity with the idea itself We must have the larger vision so that we may