The Connecticut labor news., 1924-09-06
Representative of Mac Donald Says Party Is No Temporary Ex- pedient- Pre- q ic t S Great Changes.

The British Labor Party never was revolutionary in method but it is and will continue to be revolutionary in aim, according to K. H. Tawney, one of the economists of the British labor move ment addressing the Williams institute of politics at Williamstown, Mass. He pointed out that the British Labor it becomes more experienced.
 Tawney is in a sense-the personal representative of Prime Minister Ram sey Macdonald, whose economic advl- ser he has been for several years. As serting it as his mission to dispel the idea that the Labor party was merely a temporary expedient he predicted that it would be permanent factor 1n Eng fish politics and forcesat radical though gradual changes in English conceptions of democracy, liberty, property, justice, freedom of enterprise, etc.
 "Government by the assent of the governed" he said "depends on more suitable combination of conditions in a highly organized and populous indus trial community than in the socities composed of mainly of peasant farmers and small traders in which the demo- cratic creed has its birth. Liberty does not mean today what it meant in the agricultural communities of the 18th century, Nor today does it mean the same thing to the trade unionist and 10 the directors of the combine that em- ploy him.
 ".As, therefore, the classes dependent for their livelihood on the wage con- tract will make their will effective in public affairs we may expect to see radical if gradual change like that which took place in Europe when the commercial and middle classes broke the long monopoly of power and privi- lege enjoyed by the landed aristocracy. Of this change the programs of the La Dor and Socialist parties are the first symptoms"
 Instead of producing anarchy and disaster, said Tawney, the labor govern ment has maintained the stabiliyt of in stitutions, accomplished a modest revi- val i'll trade ond won the increasing confidence of the professional and busi- ness classes Unemployment decreased from 15 per cent. in 1921 and 1922 and II per cent in 1923 to less than 8 per cent. in May, 1924, and strikes have been settled with unusual expedition by a cotton weaver who is minister of labor.
 "The first labor government" he said, "has been in power i'll England for less than 8 months, and resting on the support of minority of the house of commons 1t can at any moment be dismissed by a temporary coalition on the part of its opponents. Naturally, therefore, 1t has no long achievements to which to point and it is not yet in a position to translate the conceptions most distinctive of it intos legislation in the immediate future.'
 The downward trend of British wages has been halted, According to U. s. Trade Commissioner H. D. But Ter of London, changes in weekly rates of wages reported by employers and work people show that the long period of post war step by step reduction in wages came to a close by the end of 1923 and increases have been the rule since"
 In 1922, according to Buffers figures wage changes meant a net loss of about | SIS, 15O,0OO a week in the pay of British wage earners This was followed by an additional loss amounting to about $1, | l237,OOO a week in 1923. But by the last months of 1923 wage increases and decreases came pretty close to striking an even balance. During the first months of 1924 increases totaled about | S2, 185,O0O week while decrease fell tC about $187, 500, leaving a favorable bal CTS.
 The table shows for important indus
 tries the net loss in weekly wages 1T 1922 and 1923 and the net gains of the
 first , months of 1924 Figures are dol
 lars estimated on the basis of the cur rent exchange rate.
 Food, drink
 Changes in Weekly Wages. Decrease Increase 1o22-1o23 Jan. May 1 1924
 Mining and
 | quarying> - $2181 00O S1 283,OO(