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HOUSE OF COMMONS. On the front opposition bench there arose onetime Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald to demand a vote of censure upon the Government for its mismanagement of the coal industry problem and its neglect of the unemployment situation...
...Students' Union of his college, and engaging in a debate against the Australian team which toured Europe and America, a debate which attracted widespread attention by discussing the color problem of a "White Australia." Ramage has written for the "Socialist Review", the leading English socialist monthly, to which J. Ramsay MacDonald is a regular contributor...
...James Henry Thomas, chubby-faced, excoriated the Russians for "publishing to the world a lying statement that Ramsay MacDonald, M. P., shammed illness and went to America [TIME, May 30] to escape participating in the discussion of the Trades Union bill." Then, raising his voice, he ejaculated: "I say that such con-duct is damnable, mean and con-temptible...
Significance. The decision to break off relations indicates that the British Labor movement is once again under the undisputed leadership of moderates such as one-time Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and his trusty aides, John Clynes, "Jimmy" Thomas and others. The reason for this is probably the General Strike, undertaken against the ad- vice of the moderates, which not only dealt them a hard blow in the sense that it gave industry an unparalleled set-back and robbed them of full-time employment, but virtually bankrupted the Trades Union organizations throughout the country...
...vain Laborites tried to delay the break. Their leader, onetime Premier James Ramsay MacDonald, was still so weak (on his arrival from the U. S. last week) that he could not address the House, but merely hobbled in using a cane. Other Laborites, marshaled by Deputy Chairman of the Labor Party John Robert Clynes, spoke, but under the heavy drawback that they feared to seem to take the part of "Bolsheviks," "Reds...