The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-04
LABOR PARTY
DARES TORIES
TO ELECTION
Shows Hypocrisy of the
Baldwin Cabinet
tspsolai to Tho Daily wOrker)

kOpcoiAl TO ne lazy WOFHefJ
LONDON, July -2.-The Independ-
emit Labor Party in the notes sent out
10 party speakers, formulates the case
fWf labor against the Baldwin govern
Enent's fight to break up the Miners
Federation by forcing longer hours
and lower wages on the locked-out
MINERS and challenges Baldwin to an
election- 1t quotes from the Hans
ard" the official record OF parliament
the statement OF Baldwin on June Is,
es follows:
I'VE have come quite definitely to
the conclusion that the return to
aDnger working day is necessary"
Was Tory Policy Before Strike.
The L l. P. shows this Is the open
expression OF what had been adopted
4s the policy Of the Tory party be-
fore the strike, quoting again from
@prfyate and CONFIDENTIAL issued by
fhe Tory party 20 its pCopagandlsts
on April 26, as follows:
~The government is particularly
anxious DO draw the attention of the
public to the serious economic posi-
t5on OF the coal industry Reference
enay be made TO the question of
hours, upon which II is desirable to
concentrate rather than upon the re-
duction of wages"
Baldwin Ignores Commission.
The L l. P. shows that lengthen-
ing the hours is contrary to the gov
eminent coal commissions report and
really means an eight-and-a-hah hour
day for the miners Here it quotes
from the commissions report as fol-
lows:
Extension of working hours at this
time Of depression is not a natural
but an unnatural way OF reducing coal
costs and meeting the immediate diff
ficulty. 1t would make the working
day of the British miners longer by
half-an-hour to one hour than that Of
miners in any European coal field of
Importance, except Upper Silesia."
Pointing out that the result would
be either an Increased production os
100000 tons of coal for which no
market is assured or the unemploy-
ment of 10000 men, the l. L. P.
Negain quotes the coal commissions
REPORT as follows:
N No Market for More Coal.
3 ''While it cannot be said that there
Ns no possibility of ever finding a
narket for 100000 tons of coal than
At present, it is exceedingly difficult
DO suggest where that market is to
be found. The alternative is one
ninth fewer men"
Pointing out that the owners and
the government are working hand in
hand to break up the Miners Fed
eration, the /. L. P, shows that Bald
win is belittling and opposing the
basic demand of the union to reor-
ganize the mining industry as recon-
mended in the government coal com.
missions report, altho Baldwin is
trying to make the country believe
that the union and not his own cabi-
net, is opposing the commissions re-
port. Quoting again from Baldwin's
speeches in parliament published in
the "Hansard" of June Is:
Opposes Reorganization.
''The coal industry might be better
organized. There is no industry in
the world of which that might not
be said. l do not want the house to
form an exaggerated view of the pos
sibilities of reorganization. To ex-
aggerate the lower cost which can be
gotten by reorganization is, fear, lay
ing up possible disappointments."
Showing that the government de-
ciared the general strike illegal and
is acting entirely in the interest Of
wealthy mine owners, the l. L. P. de-
clares that the people are for the
miners and against Baldwin's policy,
and dares the Tory party to go to
the country in a general election.