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What will happen is that the Labour leaders will be forced either to challenge the capitalist system, or to be shown up for what they are: radishes, red on the outside and white within. England cannot stand the burden of more social legislation, but the party if it has a majority, cannot hesitate to demand it. As with Labour governments of the near past, all the pressure from the Treasury will be exerted on them to slash what relief provisions are now outstanding; but the party will not dare to follow their commands again. "Gradualism in reverse gear"--that...
...British Labour Party is returning to 1931 strength and probably also to a repetition of the 1931 catastrophe. Its gains in the recent by-elections have been impressive; it has won 180 seats, lost 7, as against the Conservative's showing of 9 won, 112 lost, and the Liberals's gain of 5 and loss of 33. But if one can believe the opinion of John Strachey, once a confidant of the higher-ups in the Labour Party, this success at the polls will bring surprise not unmingled with consternation to the Party leaders. And this apparent paradox is easily...
...radio colloquy between William Green and Chairman Wagner of the National Labour Board struck out some very astounding things most astounding, perhaps, Senator Wagner's conception of "industrial democracy." That great principle which moulds and directs our political life is now going to be applied to our industry, according to the Senator, and by way of proof he adduces be fact that the Board has supervised twenty elections of labour representatives to collective bargaining conferences. What the weighting of labour and employer will be, Senator Wagner does not say; from the metaphysic of the Washington administration one imagines that...
What all this may mean in relation to "industrial democracy" is difficult to define. It is reminiscent of the celebrated British Whitley Report on capital and labour, which provided for the establishment in each industry of a Joint Standing Industrial Council, in which the industrialists and the workers had equal numerical representation. The Whitley Report did not set any limits to the power of these Councils; it set them up, and having set them up, found them good, because they were roughly "democratic" in their composition and did not affect any of the serious problems of a modern industrial society...
...more critical republic, we would see talk of "cooperation between capital and labour" for what it is, a clumsy and disingenuous evasion of the problems which modern industrial development has evolved. Between the interests of capital, as it is organized today, and those of the workmen in its employ there is no fundamental community. Our economy is founded on price, and the role of the producer is, even under normal conditions, to keep wages as low as the traffic will bear, while the aim of the worker is to push them as high as he can. Even a small depression...