Very different from the tone of the Independent Labour Party
manifesto is that of the Parliamentary Committee of the Trade Union Congress which was issued on Friday. It is a capital recruiting appeal. " On the result of the present struggle," says the Committee, "rests the preservation and maintenance of free and unfettered democratic govern- ment." They end by declaring that citizens " called upon voluntarily to leave their employment and their homes have a right to receive at the hands of the State a reasonable and assured recompense." We entirely agree. The final words of the Report are : "Long life to the free institutions of all democratically governed countries." And so say all of us. So ends the foolish talk that was once indulged in about our working classes being quite as happy under the German flag as the British, and quite as willing to work for German as for British employers.
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