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HAVE YOU BEEN CAUGHT IN The WAVE OF DANCING that is sweeping the country! Everybody has! That wave came through the NEW FOX TROTS Have you noticed that the dance is the most universal of languages? Before the savage haa mastered a dialect he expresses his joys and sorrows in dances. The child dances with joy. We are but savages veneered: children grown up. Probably the new dance wave is the Joyous Reflex from War Such a reflex needed a great new dance, and it oame—THE FOX TROT. A poem in rhythmio motion, with alluring music all its own—that is the Fox Trot. Sprightly and vivacious, full of joy and abandon, just the national feebng L-that'Ei the Fox Trot. And there's the point-MUSIC ALL ITS OWN, and time and theme distinctive, and unless you get that you can't FOX TROT. That is where your Gramaphone comes in I You get the distinctive tie and feeling, you just have to Fox Trot to the strains of the best musicians. Your feet tingle. Then MOVE OUT THE CHAIRS, PUSH BACK THE TABLE, AND You Fox Trot at Home But as in all new things there is much that is rubbishy in the large issues. You must choose with discrimination. I have all to select from, and will help your choice. Fox Trots, One-Steps and Music for all Dances. J. JONES, 59 High Street, MERTHYR (Over Jackson's, 4 Doors from Station). SEND FOR SPECIAL DANCE LIST. I.L.P. HALL, CRAIG SQUARE, PONTYPRIDD SUNDAY, JAN. 19th, 1919, at 6.30 p.m. SPEAKER: JIM REYNOLDS Subject-" What is our Future Policy? Comrades, bring along a friend! j T. WATKINS' PRIZE DRAWING. MAINWARING having relinquished the duties of Secretary of above, has no further connection with same, and all monies and dupli- cates and unsold tiokets should be returned to me.—J. Purnell, 9 Angel Street, Neath. HOPE CHAPEL, MERTHYR. SUNDAY, JANUARY 19th, 1919. Preaoher- Rev. j. Morgan Jones, M.A. SUBJECT-" VENCEANCE." Services to begin at 11 o'oloek and 8 p.m. I.L.P. MEETINGS. OLYMPIA RINK, MERTHYR,! 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SPECIAL SERVICES will be held in connec- k3 tion with the above cause at St. Tydfil's Spiritualist Society, Angel Buildings, Merthyr, on Sunday and Monday, January 26 and 27, 1919 when Addresses will be given by Mrs. JENNIE WALKER (Late of Canada). Meetings to Commence:—Sunday, 11 a.m., 2.30 and 6 p.m.; Monday evening at 7.30 p.m. Clairvoyance at each meeting. SILVER COLLECTION AT ALL MEETINGS. A Treat for all who come and a Hearty Welcome. County Borough of Merthyr Tydfil. THE LICENSINC (CONSOLIDATION) ACT, 1910. Notice of Imposition of Charges under Section 21 of the Act. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Com- .1. pensation Authority for the above area have imposed under Section 21 of the Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910, for the voar 1919 charges in respect of licenses at the rate of 50 per cent of the maximum rate of charge under the Act, and charges on the premises affected will he levied and paid accordingly as part of the duties on the corresponding Excise Licenses. TOM ELf AS, Clerk to the Compensation Authority. DATED the 13th. day of January, 1919.
That League of Nations. I
That League of Nations. As this is being written the Allied Premiers and Foreign Secretaries are gathering around a table in Paris to settle the preliminaries of the Peace Conference. And public opinion hangs heavy round about them. Public opinion in vivacious French and English made cadent by the dialects of a host of countries and four nations went to war to end war. Of course, a scheme, had to be prepared that promised to bring this ideal to earth, and it came in the League of Nations. We fought for a League of Nations, and more, a League of Free Nations co-operating to lift humanity above the slough of an unnecessary and baneful mutual hatred. If the nations are not free to choose and act as free agents, the League is as impossible of realisation, as Social ism would be from a Coalition Government. Un- fortunately half-truths suffice to pacify the inert masses in all countries, and with the politicians' instinctive preference for half-truths the Peace Conference preliminaries are to first concern themselves with the problem of the League of -N at-ioiis. Tested guarantees, compulsory ar- bitration, and limitation of armaments are to be the basis of the League. Very good! The only real test of any guarantee is the good-will of the people, the only possible basis of arbitra- tion is mutual trust; which alone, also, can wipe out those animosities, doubts a,nd fears that gave us the disastrous armament races, and the removal of which alone will remove armaments and wars from the pages of history. What is wanted is no paper scheme, but a live apprecia- tion of the justice of proposals submitted, and the spirit actuating the proposers. That is the basis of a real League of Nations, and not the shallow phrases of mere paper schemes. What promise of that spirit have we had so far ? None whatever. These preliminary conferences are in essence true to type—gatherings of victors to discover what shall be done to the vanquished, and already the dictatorial tone that is the con- tradiction of any League of Nations has entered into the conclave. M. Pichon, who would wrest the whole German territory on the French side of the Rhine1 and forcibly antiex it as part of the Republic, has vetoed the proposal of Britain that the Russian Government shall be invited to the Official Conference, and until Germany effects a moral revolution she must submit to all the rules of an international control." Those are two of the proposals that declare in stentorian tones the hypecricy of the entente statesmen in dealing with the League of Nations. Faced with the determination of their peoples to secure that era of mutual good-will, without which interna- tional amity is a chimera; confronted in their respective countries with moral revolutions" that are the counterparts of the democratic con- trol that has come to Russia and Germany, and which they hate with all the fervour of a de- veloped elass-oonsciousness to which the Soviet is a merciless enemy, they have adopted the poli- ticians' puerile camouflage of giving with one hand what they can take back with the other. Dealers in words, they have sought to pacify with empty phrases, behind which lurks the ex- peditionary forces that, under the name of inter- national control, will be despatched to inaugu- rate the League of Nations by smashing the new democracy of Central Europe and reinstating there an effete bourgeoisie republicanism, or limited monarchy that the people have out- stripped. Wilson is to be defeated with the old diplomacy, the shady backstair tactics that has ever played with human life as a chess enthu- siast moves his pieces of wood, and Labour, the vaguely discontented, newly-aroused monster, is to be hoodwinked into defeating his own ends. It will not do. Politics are but a reflex of the economics of their day, and the political subter- fuges that served while still Capitalism had ele- ments of growth and development, fail when Capitalism has developed its internationalising, consolidating function, and has become not an instrument of progress, but gyves and shackles about the wrists and ankles of humanity. How- ever satisfactorily to themselves the nabobs of the Entente may camouflage and trick, they are effete. The spirit of the people calls for honesty and fair dealing, and that wo shall have though all the peace conferences in the world did their damnedest.
I Newport's Water Scheme.…
Newport's Water Scheme. I TKE Newport Corporation seems intent. upon making use of its momentary climb into pub- licity over the waterworks scheme the occasion to prove to the world in general its fidelity to type by refraining from tackling the problem that Labour's refusal to back it has presented it with. Tha position calls for statesmanship and real public spirit, but so far both have been sin- gularly lacking, and instead of handling the problem with the acumen of a true administra- tion the Newport Corporation persists in its parrot-like and unconvincing enunciation of its two favourite formulae: "Talybont is the only scheme," and Merthyr has not got the water." With ponderous solemnity and owl-like gravity Ald. Parry bemoans the statutory meeting's de- feat of the Bill promoting stage of advance- ment, and despite the superfluity of evidence against him persists in declaring that there is no alternative to Talybont and the expenditure £ 1,050,000. We imagine that the Newport Cor- poration groaned in sympathy then and spoke in dolorious tones of the £ 2,000 or 23,000 which has already been spent on preliminaries onfer to be blocked by irate ratepayers who have learned by painful experience that the concern of the Corporation for the popular welfare does not go to the length of tramway extensions for the workers, or conveniences for its own female em- ployees; and which only got busy on housing when told quietly that unless it got busy it would be left out of the grants-in-aid. Ald. Parry knews very well that the Merthyr Corporation has adopted as a desirable end the fusion of the two authorities in -& oo-paxtnership of the Mer- thyr works and site, under which the probable figure for a more than adequate water supply will not exceed £ 423,000. With a stupidity that is surprising in a man who has secured op- tions on the Talybont land for the Corporation of Newport, lie refuses steadfastly to face the evidence that Labour presents to him, and with parrot-like weariness repeats "Merthyr hasn't got the w:tter. There is no alternative." 1f that is the best that the Alderman can do, he had better stand aside and let some other take up the centre of the stage as protagonist of Talybont, for though his reiteration may ho hypnotising him into bliJid belief it is not hood- winking the Newport public, who will want a demonstration as convincing as Merthyr's ex- position of the Joint Board Scheme before they vote1 for the Talybont scheme. Tho Newport ratepayer will want something more convincing than a merely negative assertion before he will consent to pay :£:1.050,000 for something for which he is offered a perfect alternative at £ 423,000.
Oh ! Sir Edgar.I
Oh Sir Edgar. I Sir En(;{ Jones, erst while the humble shrine of that puritanical Nonconformist conscience that raised Cain when two men faced each other with padded gloves, lias signalised his (O)iversion to Toryism by buckling 011 his Lilliputian suit- of tin-plate armour, and sallying forth to deeds of daring-do against the I.L.P. He and his hand (I.Li-ing-d<) against the I.L.1). H(, %n(I li*s liaii(i Welsh constituencies sitting with the Government have decided that the Welsh air will be purer if the r. L.P.ers are suppressed, and, taking them- selves very seriously, have decided upon the for- mation of what they euphemistically entitle Re- construction Societies, Clubs and Guilds to com- bat the propaganda of the T.L.P. Foolish per- sons might see in this sudden activity the selfish fear of the Norman knight and hi,s friends for their seats. What we are concerned with is not the folly of such foolish persons, but with the methods whereby we are to lie combatted. So far we are in the dark. If an I.L.P.or argues with you; knock him down. Fools might again have the temerity t.o ascribe such advice to Sir Edgar's inability to frame a convincing reply to the argument for Socia lism. Of course that is absurd! Our concern is deep, we tremble in fear awaiting the onslaught of the hordes of re- organised anti-Socialist League orators led by the chivalrous Sir Edgar, champion of free- speech. advocate of the rights of small-nation- alities, and fearless exponent of the freedom of the individual.
Merthyr Guardians and Relief.
Merthyr Guardians and Relief. I STIPENDIARY'S DECISION UPHELD IN I HICH COURT. IMPORTANT JUDGMENT ON HUSBAND'S I LIABILITY FOR MAINTENANCE. The appeal of the Merthyr Board of Guardians against the decision of the Merthyr Stipendiary (Mr, H. A. Griffith) before whom they failed to get a maintenance order against Bernard Cole- man, a travelling draper, of Penj-darren, whose wife was receding out-door relief from the hoard, came up for hearing at the King's Bench Division before" Messrs. Justice Darling, Justico Avory and Justice Salter. Dismissing the application on the ground that there was ample evidence before the magistrate to justify him taking the course he did—which was to decide that the w-oman did not require re- lief at all-Mr. Justice Darling said that the proceedings arose under the 'Poor Law Amend- ment Act, 1868 (Section 33) and the position was that it was only when a woman needed relief that these proceedings were justifiable at all. Mrs. Coleman went to the guardians and got re- lief for herseLf and child. Thereupon the guar- dians came before the magistrate and asked that the husband might be ordered to pay the money to them that they had allowed the wife. I think the magistrate upon that had a per- fect right to go into the question. He was not bound to say, Oh, the guardians have found she needs the money, therefore I will not look into the question at all: all I have to do is to perform a ministerial duty, that is to say that the guardians have decided that she needs .15/- a week, and I, therefore, order the husband to find it.' I think it was his duty to look into the matter and see whether she did require re- lief in the sense of needing relief or whether she did not. He did so and upon the facts either admitted or proved before him he oame to the conclusion that she did not require any such re- lief, but that her husband was ready to main- tain her and the child, and that she was an un- reasonable woman who would not live in any place that her husband was prepared to provide, and therefore he refused to make the Order. If in these circumstances the guardians choose to go on allowing her 15/- a week, that is a matter between them and the ratepayers for whose suf frages they will a-.sk at some not very distant date. Mr. Justice Avory said lie was of the same opinion. There was, he thought, evidence upon which the Stipendiary could find, as he did, as a fact that the respondent was and always had Iw'en willing to maintain his wife, and secondly that there was no good cause for the wife leav- ing or refusing to live with her husband. If there was evidence to support these findings then it was clear upon the authorities that the husband was not liable to make the contribution even though the guardians might have decided erroneously that the woman was one who re- quired relief within the meaning of the section. Mr. Justice Salter concurred, and the appeal was accordingly dismissed with costs.
jA PROTEST. I
A PROTEST. I The National Union of Ships' Stewards and Cooks are protesting against an attempt by the Shipping Federation to act as an Employment Agency for the merchant service in certain ports, and is reminding its members that the trade unions is their proper agency.
Notes from London
necessary to equalise the industrial conditions in all countries and to remove, as far as may be possible in the present state of the world, those economic antagonisms which play so great a part in the creation of war. THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT. I A third, and most important, question is the necessity for a policy in relation to the revolu- tionary movements in Central and Eastern Europe. That calls for decision. The position of Russia. in particular demands the immediate and sympathetic attention of the Labour movements of Europe. Russia needs the genuine help of the organised workers of the world in the place of that disastrous and hypocritical help she is getting from the Capitalist governments.
Notes from London
Notes from London (From our London Correspondent). < It LAUSANNE OR BERNE? "That has become known as the Lausanne Conference may not, after all, be held in La 11- { sanne, and Berne is mentioned as the possiblèJ" meeting place of the International Labour audi Socialist delegates. From inquiries I have! made I learn that those who are likely to know, the situation best regard Berne as the more likely place. lr WHY NOT LAUSANNE. jl It appears that the Swis authorities havaM some objection to the use of Lausanne, thd explanation of which is probably as much tb; atmosphere of the place as anything else. TheK?j are select" spots in Engla;1<1 where a Laboiu I Conference would not be so welcome a-< it is '< t t le industrial centres. There is also some fea in certain quarters that t}w Internationa |j| ?atherin? will be an encouragement to Hol.she?' visrn, and Bolshevism is not specially liked in ? the quarters to which I refer! The organisers, of the Conference, on the contrary, declare, that*, it is the surest safeguard against Bolshevism, fc THE FEAR OF BOLSHEVISM. If But, then, Bolshevism is very little under- 14 stood, and it is understood least by those who:" use the word most freely. Is Bolshevism a de- V elopment that should be discouraged or on- j". couraged? That must be a matter of ol)inioji, and it is not easy to form a sound opinion .upon' t the question because the true situation is hid- den from us by the Government-controlled press and in some cases almost c*,rtaitily doliberat untru<\ reports that are sent across the wires for our consumption. A HANDY WEAPON. < And while that game of deception is going on the word Bolshevism is carefully associated with blood and violence and unserupuloupness, just as the word Socialism not many years ago used to be associated by its enemies with free-love and Atheism. The word is a handy weapon for the yellow prevss to fling at anybody, to whom it 1 takes a dislike, however constitutional in his agitation that person may be. r L'HUMANITE GETS IN TROUBLE. 1" For instance, the French Socialist daily, [ r Humanite." lias upset the capitalist papers, and l'Hmnanite therefore becomes the ob- ject for tho sneers and jibes which Macdonald and Snowden know so well. "Yah, Bolslievik v snaps the kept press at I' Humanite," and all because the Organ of French Socialism has printed the letter of M. Pichon, written in reply to the proposal of the British Government that i all the governments of Russia should be invited r to compose their differences for the time, agree to a truce, and send delegates to the Peace 4 Conference. { THE IRRECONCILABLE PICHON. M. Pichon turned the suggestion down be- It cause1 he1 is not willing to acknowledge the Bol- It shevik Government in the slightest degree. That t is his pleasant little way of showing his he-lief r in the rights of peoples to choose their own k forms of government, and his desire for goodwill and concord among the peoples which should fol- ever banish the threa.t of war from Civilisation. THE "EVENING MEWS" RAMP. 1 "tHumamtc published his letter, and the 1 London" Kve>ning News," quoting the Paris Correspondent of the Times," began to howl anathema at the offending French journal. It was a plot to stab M. Clemeneeau in the back. [ It was a. Bolshe*vik attempt to wreck the Pt,ice Conference and ¡.;qw dissension among the Allies. But after much hysterical raving the Evening News" tells us that the action of l'Humanite cannot do the slightest harm to the spirit of harmony and goodwill that prevails among the Allies. It is rather a pity, therefore, one thinks, to ivaste so much of the valuable space of the "Evening News" in violent de- t nunciation A DANGEROUS WEAPON. I If I'H umanite" has become a Bolshevik < organ, their Bolshevism is spreading fast | throughout Eui-ope! The incident is suffiel-ent 7 to show that the Capitalist press stunts about Bolshevism must not be taken seriously. n?y i are making the word popular, and they may yet II find the weapon a tomahawk from which they i themsetvcs will receive the greatest hurt. ANOTHER INTER-ALLIED CATHERINC? But I must return to the Conference after that little diversion to Bolshevism. It matters j ht.t)e whether it is held in Lausanne or Berne? and I believe the Swiss authorities are not un- willing to permit the gathering at Berne. Mr. Henderson is now in Paris making arrangements and no doubt things will be in order in a few days. One of the questions that has to be de- I cided by those who are now conferring in Paris is that raised in the Belgian request for a pre- li.minary meeting of the Allied groups. To this there is the serious objection of time, in addi- tion to which there are many who feel we have had enough Inter-Allied gatherings and partial conferences. What we want now is a real and speedy meeting of the International Conference ONE CONFERENCE OR TWO? I The suggestion is made in some quarters that « there should be separate conferences of the Trade Union representatives and the political re- .1 presentatives. Gompers, of the American Federa- tion of Labour, takes this view. It is quite a possibility that the final arrangements may pro- vide for separate sessions of the two sections with joint sessions for the discussion of certain questions. There is difference of opinion upon the proposal in Labour circles, so that it is diffi- cult to predict at this moment what will be the outcome of all the preliminary conversations to settle this and similar little problems. THE LEACUE OF NATIONS AT THE CONFERENCE. Three vital questions will need consideration at the International Conference. One is the need for the immediate establishment of a League of Nations as the first step to permanent peace. The formation of such a League would need to be carefully watched by the International La- bour and Socialist Movement, for there is grave danger of a League of Capitalist Governments, which will give to the possessing classes a more powerful weapon against the growth of Labour ideals and Socialist thought. A genuine league of peoples to make the world safe for democracy it will be very hard to get from the Peace Con- ference! Only under the authority of such a League, however, can tho territorial, political, and economic questions that the war has em- phasised be discussed in the spirit of democracy which will ensure a just settlement. A SYSTEM OF LABOUR LECISLATION. Another urgent matter is the formulation of a "Charter of Labour Legislation" which fd