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Socialist George Bernard Shaw said 43 years ago: "There are two . tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it." Last week in Bridlington the Trades Union Congress, representing 8,000,000 organized workers, had full possession of its heart's desire-a Socialist government. Yet under the seeming agreement among the delegates in the Spa Royal Hall was frustration, and perhaps tragedy...
...split between workers as party members and workers as union members was not allowed to break up the Bridlington show; conflicts were carefully covered up in compromise resolutions. Explained one delegate: "Barkis isn't always willing, but he usually has to say he is." So, with their eyes on the approaching general elections, the delegates grudgingly gave the government its way on every important question...
Prime Minister Attlee was expected to launch the retrenchment policy next week at the convention of the powerful British Trades Union Congress at Bridlington. Last week he ordered all government bureaus to prepare estimates for a 5% cut in expenditures; if this economy could be carried through it would lop $600 million from the nation's $12 billion budget. Board of Trade President Harold Wilson ordered a 5% slash in some retail textile and footwear prices; this might ease workers' pressure for wage increases...
Familiar to almost every schoolboy is the Arabian Nights tale of the deadly lodestone island which drew the iron nails and bolts from passing ships, causing them to be wrecked on its jagged cliffs. Last week one G. H. Gray. Lloyd's agent at Bridlington, England, declared that he had discovered a modern parallel to this myth...