Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
Labor Now at the Helm

In 1921; a small, neat woman of 60,
with apple cheeks and sharp, gray
eyes; keen, able and firmly convinced
That the Labor party has a religious
basis and is a practical expression of
the Christian spirit in politics.
Having in these and other ways
strengthened himself on the Right, Mac
Donald declared himself In favor of
the quiet development of Industry
with peaceful mind and confidence
at nome and abroad" and prepared to
function.
Left Wing Is Problem.
And now he has started to function.
Hls toughest job will be to keep his
poWerIui, undisciplined Left wing in
check so that he will not be forced to
hurry things and frighten the country
For he Is playing for time. He can IA
nothing big without majority, and he
= working for majority at the next
electlon, which most competent OBJ
servers think Is two years off-barrinr
accloents OF a revolt of the Left Wins
HIS position Is not easy. The Iahcr
party, unlike the two other parties. has
written constitution and demanfs
tnat its parliamentary leaders carry
GU. tne oroers OF the party executive
anu meet the executive whenever n
thinks mt. If the executive presses its
rule-and 1t did with disastrous effects
10 party fortunes In 1924-it means
mat the country will not be ruled hv
Ine House Of Commons. according -
BRUSH constitutional usage. but nv the
Iurtive party caucus outside much as
SIAM and his. henchmen control the
ooVieI government, although Stain has
no government post.
Inc executives wanted to choose
NJ int tr a..
was too strong for them. However
more is likely to be heard OF this fact
AS Ior the policy of the party. the pro-
gam covers so pages and leaves eyerv-
tnlng open; but Macdonald and the
Wnoie group he has placed in ONCE are
out 70 make more definite advance
toward arbitration and away from ar.
maments and to arrive at an under
standing with America, to combat nm
employment by more vigorous deyeI.
opment OF policy at home and in the
dominions. to adhere to free trade and
move away from the protective tariff
ana, In general. to do everything nos.
SlDle TO free the economic list from
being dominated by the motive of
profit-making." (There. In that last
aim, you get the Socialist nose shaken
up In the program cocktail the new
government is Offering the nation.)
a.
ment. The feminine element alone gives
promise Of fireworks. The Tories have
three woman members-Lady Astor.
min. feverish. active. disliked by many
OF her party for her prohibition views
and aggfeSsiveneSs: the Duchess of
Atholl, tall, serene, capable admins
traitor, who makes few speeches: the
Countess of. Iveagh. the best speaker
among the women In the last Parlia-
ment and the wife of the millionaire
Earl OF Iveagh. the chief proprietor of
England's biggest brewery.
AL these Tory women succeeded In
constituencies held by their husbands,
before accession to the peerage carried
the men to the House Of Lords.
Megan Lloyd George. ~. pretty, Pc
tite. and persuasive, was the only Lib
eral woman to get In out of rs who
contested seats; and Eleanor Rathbone,
feminist and sociologist and champion
OF the women In the sex war now on
In the medical world, was the solitary
woman independent who was elected.
Mine Socialist Women.
The Socialists have nine women
Margaret Bondfleld, the first woman
cabinet minister; Susan Lawrence, a
Newnham College graduate, a statis-
tician and the ablest woman in the last
/ Parliament; Ellen Wilkinson, a former
school teacher and trade union organi-
ger, red-haired, vivacious and known as
Miss Perky; Jenny Lee. "a, youngest
Of the woman members, 1.-THE daughter of
working miner, fluent but cheeky:
Miss e. Picton- Turberville, member OF
an old Tory family. suffrasette of the
old type, lean and reticent, not q good
mixer, In politics from sense of duty
but preferring walks with her dogs:
Marion Phillips, an economist and doc
tor of science, a whole-time worker for
the Socialist party for the last 20 years
and its chief woman organizer; DR.
Ethel Bentham. another old-established
Socialist. practicing doctor of medi-
cine and lunacy expert; Mary Hamil-
ton, MacDonald's biographer, a Newn-
ham College graduate and the daughter
of Scotch professor of logic. able and
fluent, and Lady Cynthia Mosley, 81
daughter of the late Marquis Curzon OF
Kedelston and the beneficiary under
the Letter will, the wife of Sir Oswald
Mosley, also Socialist M. p. land one
Of the IL most beautiful women In Eng
land.
No drones here. Even lovely Cynthia
Mosley, despite the fact that she looked