The Cotton Factory Times. — 1914-01-23 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

OILY."  Dear Fellow rnioniela—you fools? Alter instituting a " Labour " party to capture Parliament and its armed forum from capital by effecting representation by wage-ear:tem instead of by meyea are " selecting " and electing capitaliets---employese—buyers of labour—not angels—bunnum--se Labour members to fight against their own intmests. and thews of their etas, for soo—The sellers of Labour. It is no me protesting that Mese employere elected bare proved thecrieelree and bare sometimes been abovrri to be the beat fighters for la  They have not! They have "cut no it," While Australia, through Labour representation, tan eiloins to be perhaps the only country on the planet where, in face of the world-wide rise in prioea once 1396, wages *ince 1900, according to the Commonwealth Statistician, have gene up more, we have, still, in thi• "parodies of the working man," weekly, if net daily, suicides from sheer destitartice and suseamioynient, though times are ao " good" (1) that the demand for dwelling. has forced rents to boom figures, and bonuses are paid in perhaps most Ciate for the .• key." , That invalids; are pensioned for life or temporarily , (maternity allowances) only after 60 and 66 years I of age, or when incurable, or on child-bed, whilst I Quick and aker starvation is deetroying mouton?. able citizens, suiciding and certified as dying from I consumption, pneumonia, etc., etc., of all ages, I proves that the party, if tried, indeed has been found wanting. Why not  A Destitution Pension, ' for short period to any inhabitant suffering hewn hunger, the worst known disease, though the easiest cored? Such timidity in tackling the difficulty aan only be caused by the existence of a power in the party sancta of perhaps only a mien number of members (acting as a balance of power between " moderates' and progreesives in the mucus, whose interest would suffer bv this far more substantial strengthening of the hands of the whole wage-earning class, who, from Sc. to £lOO per week, unskilled, skilled or super-skilled (Professional) are in continuous competition with destitute husbands of dearly loved but starving wives and children.  Many of you, in New South Wales particularly, recognising this partial capture of our party by the enemy, have moved for a new trade union party. To such may be commended the action of those of us in Victoria who for years have been resisting this inui Here we suggest no hostile party till the existing one prove unstoceptibla of correction. Every year, ax Conference, we have placed motions on the agenda paper excluding employers from the party. 1908.—Not dealt with.  1909.—Amended out of recognition eah other proposals by " cassia." poxes. 1910.-21 for, 93 agates 191 L-41 for, 103 against 1912.-61 for, 101 againet. . _ .  1913.—N0 COnferen;,e ; gett,r‘l  As one of the prime- moven' hitherto in thin agitation in Victoria, I urge every union and branch in Australia (and N.Z.) to send the rroposal to State Conferences: "That membership be confined to wage-earners, excluding empioyera," instructing delegates to force a vote and support.. lii eonelveion objectors to thin exclusion are oixtllonged to explain what " Labour' Party means, if not representation by seams of labour in.t, ad of by buyers of labsor.—Fraternally yours._  H. K 27, Drummond-et-reekltou, Melbourne, Viotone.