Widnes Examiner. — 1914-04-18 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

LABOUR AND SOCIALIST" CANDIDATES. A long discussion took place on a recommendation put forward by several branches that the I:L.P., the British Socialist party,, and the Fabian Society should join in the formation of a United Socialist Council. The subject was considered in December, by the executives of the three bodies at a meeting held unde4 the auspices of the Internationall Socialist Bureau, and it was agreed that the members should be consulted as to the advisability of putting forward a proposal at the I Labour party conference of 1915 that candidates who so desire may describe themselves as "Labour and Socialist" candidates. That meeting also urged that steps should be taken in the way of holding joint •meetings, &c., with a view' to bringing about "a speedy and happy solution of the difficulties which have hitherto stood in the way of Socialist. unity." A vigorous protest was made by Mr. Egerton I Wake (Barrow-in-Furness), who declared that I ea-operation of the kind proposed would reopen the door to dissension. The work of the I.L.P. would be paralysed by the resurrection of all the old quarrels on matters of dogma and method.  Mr. Fenner Brockway pointed out that if they ran "Labour and Socialist" candidates there would be nothing to prevent other parties from running "Labour and non-Socialist" or "Labour and \Anti-Socialist " candidates. The recommendation with regard to the classification of candidates as " Labour and Socialist" was referred back to the committee for further consideration. The other recommendations were adopted.  Proprietors of  Punch?  an actual drink expenditure through t of (soy) £3.500,000, or less than 21 per the national drink bill.  Social Consequences. Dealing with the social consequences national expenditure on intoxicating Mr. Wilson mentions the 363,434 prosectil 1912 for drunkenness in the United  _ and attributes the very much higher in Scotland and Ireland, as compared land, to the larger consumption in t  tries of whisky. During 1911 2,802 men women. were certified as having died holism or cirrhosis of the liver in Eng Wales alone, of whom more than b under 55 years of age. He remarks till  large number of " accidental " deaths al to mischances occurring to persons more, under the influence of liquor, and cliwt' view of Dr: W. C. Sullivan, of his M 3 Prison Service, expressed in 1906, that to contribution of intemperance to suicide to 20 per cent. is an.estimate well within the  As for indirect consequences, he nnP3f. while no one contends that the removal ° drink evil would solve all the social proble,°; our time, no one can examine these sociT., blems without realising that the drinking II; of our people have an unhappy praminellet all of them. He quotes Dr. Newsholme'° ment in his report of last year that draill',e; favours excessive infant mortality; and 0,7, Report of the Lunacy Commissioners that sonal addiction to alcohol had been a faet°;l 26.3 per cent, of male and 10.4 per cent. of cases of first attacks of insanity, and thal; per cent, of the male and 4 per cent. female it was the only one which o°' assigned as ;the casual agent. 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