The more Mr. MacDonald's words shake people up the better.
In our opinion he has done a very courageous thing in writing his preface and, in the long run, his words will be found to be just as wholesome for his own Party as for the whole country. Socialism means nothing if it does not embrace the interests of the whole Society or Community. But what could be more disastrous to the wellbeing of any society than these unceasing strikes ? They are anti-social in both conception and conduct. We may add that the New Leader, not deterred by Mr: Bramley's abuse of it at the Trade Union Congress' as being - "full of the intolerable conceit of the superior person," has renewed its attack upon the- management of trade unionism. Both Mr. Ernest Hunter, whose opening article so infuriated Mr. Bramley, and the editor have justified what had already been said. Mr. Hunter points out the futility of frequent sectional strikes and can see no hope in the new- powers which have been vested in the General Council-. The editor declares quite truly that wages have ceased to have -" even their rough customary relations to effort and skill.",
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