Pioneer

Mrs. Glasier Interrupted. WREXHAM PEACE MEETING HELD UP. Mrs. Bruce Glasier was refused the opportun- ity of addressing a Women's Peace Movement meeting at Wrexham on Saturday owing to the action of a party of Welsh Fusiliers. Mrs. Glasier had scarcely opened her speech on ''Shall Europe Bleed to Death," when the soldiers started their interruptions. One soldier interrupter asked: Are you a German, Mrs. Glasier?" "No, I am an Eng- lishwoman. and my son is a sailor in danger every moment." replied the lecturer. Another soldier asked: "Whatpoout the Glenart Castle ? It was a dastardly outrage, was the answer. Mrs. Glasier said that Pacifists wished to ap-i peal to the conscience of the whole world to secure peace by negotiation. In asking for order, the Mayor said he dis- agreed with everything Mrs. Glasier said or was likely to say—he thought it was treason. But the promoters of the meeting were entitled to speak. Mrs. Glasier was not allowed to con- tinue, however, though she offered to second the Mayor's resolution of protest against any attempt to negotiate with the murderous tyranny of the Kaiser," a resolution which in itself shows the abject ignorance of the persons who interrupted.

HOPE CHAPEL, MERTHYR, I Rev. J. Morgan Jones, M.A. SUBJECT—" SOCRATES." A CORDIAL WELCOME EXTENDED TO ALL I

I Socialism and Pyscfto-Teclinics. I THEHK I^ one important part of the task that devolves upon the intelligent, alert Socialist, that. alas,we are handling but. lightly, and with- out. that depth of a priori criticism that we shall have to engender if we are to play our sclf-con- fes-sed task as the guardians of the real interests of Democracy. And that is to indicate the real- ity of the employers' new movement towards concentration of effort under such schemes as Scientific- Management ha* to offer, and its econ- omic reflex upon the Labour market and the conditions or the working class, from top to bottom of the scale of toil. We have done our best to show that this new movement oil the parr- of Capital is rapidly emerging from the phase of speculation, and is becoming a. working synthesis, in the completion of which the Gov- ernment nas played its part- by the enquiry and oil, of the Whitley Commission. We have endeavoured to s how on more than one occasion that the n'stllt of the a.doptionot that Commission's recommendations must inevitably 11-1.1 bad for Laoour; from the fact that the whole purpose of industrial organisation on the jwirt of the Capitalists is towards more and more intense production; the elimination of waste dfen: the introduction oi improved labour- it,: --ti(, inti-o(i-d,(-ti(4n ()i up ,,LX I II_ I"i.ii(i tli(? ol, t.hc- 1)1-o(ill(.t loll. illle<l to ?t. enough to act, not for the purpose of improving j Labour's lot. but for the purpose of endeavour- in: to.. secure a surrender of the only weapon that Labour, f;¡("pd wth an intolerable state of affairs, possesses—its refusal to run the machine, a refusal to toil. The elimination of was?e "ff( of? t. tllt? ? I of machinery and the mtro- duction of improved methods ail tend to one end—the eliminfl tion of Labour from the factory, and the intensification of the struggle for jobs on the labour market, where wages are deter- mined. The economists, and pundits of Capital- ism who argued on the beauties of cheapness under the new era, and the beautiful lot of the. wage-camel's in the Arcana of consolidated capital scientifically managed, argue in a vicious (-ire!e<? futility. The chief e\-Uo{' the past-: the primary condition that has made for Labour un- rest has been the fact thaL. the workers of the world have produced more than they were able to buy back and consume. Intensification of Labour with its necessary elimination of labourers and their dumping on the labour mar- ket is logically bound to result in a fiercer com- petition for jobs, and the relative reduction of the wage s hare of the labourer, intensification of industry means that surpluses will pile up fast-er and faster in the warehouses, and we shall have a recrudescence of those awful indus- trial crises that so puzzled Jevons that ??e looked for their cause in dw snn-spots; and that are only understandable by an appreciation of Social- ist economics based on sound theoretical know ledge. That theoretical knowledge of both sides of the case—the Socialist ami the Capital- ist—it is our duty to acquire and propagate; and to this end we welcome Mark Starr's lucid re- view of Professor Munsterburg'.s Psycho-technics which appears in this issue, and to which Ave di- rect the sober attention of every leader of the Pioneer." What- Professor Miinsterburg and others are doing in American' colleges, is going to be done in our English universities; and a start- has been made in Manchester by the alto- cation of a -large grant by a few of the largest firms in Cottonopolis for the purpose of institut- ing a lecturer-ship in scientific management there. Capitalism is oil a mad i-azzle of Ion and, though we are not so foolish as to believe with the Lollards that we can-break the machine, and stay the logical culmination of the happenings and accu- mulations of the past, we are. or ought to be. sufficiently alive to the facts to be in a position to warn the workers of the pit-falls and by-paths that lead to the Servile State to prevent the reckless abrogation of Labour's power by La- bour's leaders in return for a heady draught of mock participation in the power of management; and in addition the task of propaganda is always ours. Upon us devolves the task, then, of show- ing that scientific management aDd psycho- technics are not in themselves evils to he shunned, but that their evil propensity is only the outcome of their alliance with a non-moral, evil, anti-social system cf production for profit; to illustrate to the people that these very things, together with their nauses--the factory method of pi-odiivtlon.Ill indeed be amongst humanity's most glorious boons and blessings when humanity has learned the first lesson of Socialism the lesson that to man belongs the fruits of man's toil—and not to a handful of for- tune favoured monsters riding to hell on the backs of the misery-stricken mass of the people. Capitalism guided by scientific, management, and Labour recruited by the psycho-technical expert will, in the absence-of a conscious direction to- wards Socialism in the greater section of the proletariat, produce a servile state, beside which the picture that H. G. Wells paints in one of his fantasies, of Labour drugged to sleep when not engaged on toil, offers a pipe-dream of Utopia. With the Socialist conception militant, and Socialist eùlIeation spTeading; in ever widen- ing circles, the mad course of Capitalism inten- sified out of present recognition offers nothing but a regrettable interlude, to the entry into a still better Socialist State than we had to offer before. Psycho-technics and scientific manage- ment offer, when viewed from the standpoint of Socialist philosophy and economics, more leisure, more spaciousness, more beauty into the pros- pectus of our inheritance. Let us then master these things, and let us in a high and noble spirit dedicate ourselves to the enlightenment of our fellows into their meaning; that progress may not be impeded by the futility of Lollard- ism that Labour may be militantly active on its own side, and not defeated by its own officers' mistaken loyalty. Mistaken loyalty is often in its effects indistinguishable from treachery but both will be impossible if we have done our work sufficiently well to have warned the workers what these things mean in their essence; and if we have safeguarded against that treachery by insisting on the importance on the maintenance of strict independence, which carries with it the Right to Strike.

I Socia l ism an d War. Socialism and War. MARK STARR'S ADDRESS AT THE RINK.) THE STEEL BASIS OF IMPERIALISM. The Met thy r I.L P. was both unlucky and luckv on Sundav last..First of all we billed Miss M inei Wallheid to address a. Rink meeting, but, she had, unfortunately, s hared in the somewhat- mixed fortune that is haunting the family at the Mionient, and ptomai ne poisoning compel led her to brea k the engagement. Sub- stitutes were difficult to find at short notice, but we received notification on Saturday night that she would !>e deputised by a Mr. Watson, of London, and the beUmanwns sent out to an- nounce thv meeting and the al teration of speaker. But our luck was out. and Sunday ar- rived without the speaker, and so we fell back upon J\)r.?httk Starr, who had been conducting the Industrial Historv class in the morning. Then" was a \?)'y good attendance, considering the ",harp nip m dH' air. that made a fireside far more tempting than even a Rink meeting. Mr. John Barr occupied the ehair. ami made an unusually strong appeal in furtherance of the 1.000 new members campaign. Mark Starr took as his subject Socialism and War, and began with a thumb-nail sketch ot the evolution of industry and Capital. for J? purpose of demonstrating that, only from one source did profits accrue: from the appropriation of the surplus product of Labour, over and above the wealth necessary to the cost, of la- hour' s maintenance—wage*. Proceeding, he showed that Capitalism itself had passed through tmee stage:— Cap'tali-m militant: Capitalism pacific; and Capitalism Imperialistic and re- militan*. I'ln- first phase lead been a necessary outcome tii the period of world diseo\er\ and ex- ploration, a,nd the scramble for possession an<i monopolisation of the new <r?n:ri(? that the dNoovei ers had found, 't'?i'?ocond ph:?? was also tile natural result of the great lead that English munufactuie gained 0\1' the rest ot Europe. < ngaged in inn rnecine and interna- tional strife, and, in Germany lacking the co- hesion that- was otiiy won oy the consolidation (•' the Empire about ]n hose days of Cobden and I'right- textiles weix t he commodi- ties t'iat had to be sold on the markets of the world, and textiles were ca-iiy sold and needed not the- aid of an army and navy to protect them. But textiles had been superseded. Iron and steel was now tin fcrtilisii^g globe- trotter and eiviliser and the shop-keeper out- io (k fit the textile era was no longer possible, lor iron and steel, machinery and railroads could not- be paid for as were textiles. Tbe re- turn on capital invested abroad had to be guar- anteed by concessions over the mineral and vegetable natural wealth of the nations to be developed: and that guarantee could only he given by rlie Union .Jack, in the case of Kim- land. by the adoption of the policy of Imperial-- ism—Capitalism militant. The who l e of the na- tions' concessionaries were in competition for the markets in the outlands, and suspicions were engendered, which, coupled with the armament monopolies' exploitations, engendered the spark that set alight the boil-fire that. had been piled up through the years that- had preceded 1914. Socialism wa- the only solution. Socialism of a clean-cut- edge; that would cleave the narrow circle ot Imperialistic Capitalism, i I I (I I Ill. the workers of the world together for production for list1 ot man. and not isolate them in com- petitive prod-notion for the profit- of the few. Out of the ebiss-eonseioii- proletarian outlook emerged th" clear vision of the economic basis of Imperialism and war: and came the light of a new and roblei: conception of the historic mis- sion ot the workers as the emancipator of the world from misery and war and s( Ifi-hnc-s.

Mardy Jones for East Rhondda Division. .Mardy .Jones is to be congratulated on main- taining hi.s position of second place in ballot. w iiicfi shows, that lie has increase?! his votes on a higher ratio than I), Witt's Morgan, with whom lie will go to a final hallot on Thursday and Friday next. The result of the second ballot was as follows; — 1). Watts Morgan (* 4 21 ) f. I..Mardy .Jones 4.311 T. Smith 'I heii is everv prospect that the final ballot will prow a very close contest, and it is very probable that Mardy .Joins will come out on top. His victory will be all the more striking :n view of the great Press boom given to the Major based upon inspired information which was as erroneous as it was partisan. For in- stance. a statement appeared in the Soutii Wales pre- days before many of the lodges had even considered the matter, that Major I), Watts Morgan had been nominated by all ('s- cept one of the lodges in the division. The wish tW as father to the thought, as five others chal- lenged his avowed possessory rights to the sear. Again, on February lith. several London Sun- day papers reported that the gallant- Major had secured a majority vote over the other five can- didates, and several of the London pictorials re- peated the statement- next (lay under his photo- graph. The South Wales Press knew better and did not repeat the canard. For the official ifgures made it clear.that the Major had to go to a second ballot with Mardy .Tones and Tom Smith, and as the above figures of the second ballot show that the Major has now to face the issue of a straight ballot vote with Mardy Jones. It is certain that the Major has a stiff fight ahead, which will require more scientiifc weapons than the pick and shovel to put him through. If the supporters of the defeated candidates will bo loyal to their profession of advanced views they will now rally in the final ballot to return Mardy Jones at the head of the poll. For Major Watts belongs to the reactionary element both industrially and politically in the Labour Move- ment. He apparently has no conception of the economics and ethics of Socialism. On the other hand, there are few men in the entire coalfield who have a finer record of splen- did service for the advanced Labour Cnusp in the past fifteen years than Mardy Jones. Like Ablett and others of his student-colleagues he has used his abilities, not to rise out of his class, but to raise his class to the position of rulers. He has contributed numerous articles on the coal trade to the scientific journals of economic science, and his brilliant pamphlets on Mining Royalties and or- Colliery Rating have estab- lished his reputation as an expert in these sub- jects. His whole public career has been an ex- cellent training-ground for the fuller opportuni- ties of parliamentary work. He would be a powerful acquisition to the Lah-onr Party and a first-class exponent of industrial unionism as the primary force in the overthrow of Capitalism. Given the loyal support to which he is entitled from the advanced forces of Labour in the Rhondda, Mardy Jones will yet win, and his vic- tory will prove an inspiration to the Cause in the Rhonddn.

I Mr. Snpwden's Protest. I I, N DEBATE ON PENSION VOTE TO DE- I PENDENTS OF SIR E. MAUDE. } In the oii the proposal to grant widow of the late Sir Stanley Maude (the General responsible for the Meso- potaTitian victories) in the House of Commons, on Monday. Mr. P. Snowden objected to the A ote. not on personal grounds, but on grounds ot public policy. This was only another form of perpetual pension. (" 0.11.") The stim^proposed to be voted ,would, presumably, be invested in the National War Loan, and would bring in an oi, a .eai-. It. was thus a provision not only for the immediate depend- ents of the late General—which could have been done oy granting them an annuity for their own lifetime or until they could provide tor them- selves.—but it would he a peimanent burden on the resources or the country. He objected also 'because o; tlie class distinction which a proposal like this introduced, having regard to the very small allowances to the million pensioners whom we had to-day, and the small financial recogni- tion givitii to others who had suffered in the war. From many letters he had received he was sure that- this grant was very mneh opposed in the country. Chb of No.") Mr. A. Chamberlain (U—Birmingham) re- gretted that Mr. Snowden had raised a dissen- tient voice. He was sure that if this grant had I d- pended on the votes of a House of .soldiers, and above ail oi men who fought under Sir S. Maude, they would have declared that the grant was much too small for the great debt that we owed to the late General.. Air. Snowden might have been content to suppress his bitter feelings and w,ai\e his small financial scruples, and have joined in th> modest tribute of a grateful people. The ote was agreed to, only a bout two dis- setiiient voices being heard win n the question was put from chair.

Miss Kiernan's Farewell to Merthyr. I FAMOUS SCHOOLMISTRESS CHANGES HER I VOCATION AND RETURNS TO MANCHESTER. I Mi— s. M. Kiernan. late headmistress at Dowlais. lias changed bej- vocation, and returned to to secretarial position in the ofifces of the Ship ( anal, and t.o take up hoi residence with her w'dowed mothi r in that- City. Tim severance was keenly' felt by a large circle of Miss Kiernan s iriends and colleagues, who have iield HER MI the highest appreciation and esteem, and iei\e admired the conscientious and efficient manner in which she discharged her du- ties during her nine years' association with re- spousible eduea: >ona work at Dowlais and lioedyrhiw. She was. indeed, a lady of charm- ing personality, whose departure involves a loss to local society. On the. evening of Alai-(-Ii l,t Kiet'nan ?.? t .<. ?.?..T ,,t .,1? ,H?a?u? a.t TrM?dvrhiw M-liools. and t I)c (Dt, of iiiqn v kindlv sentiments. «nd a series of tnr?-(.n prfsenia- tions. \?' e are to 1(,?t h as ?t'!in -r\T.n as \ou haw enterprisingly decided to "enter upon a new and H?poriam sphcn? of work for whieh you are unaoubtedly suited by your many quali- fications. we wish you well froin the bottom of our hearts. We shall always remember voir with ?:?c)n) pride, and watch your (':11'1:(>]' with f?n?mn.n.). ()nr?,,? ?;.h<iot](?-You— G od-speed. Such wa- the purport oi the sentimouts uttered touchingly 'iy a procession of speakers to .Miss Kiernan. who was moved to the cole, and conid now scarcely b--ai the thought of tearing herself away. a 'I he e\e of her departure was fuffl1^- attended by a valedictory gathering at her residence of a gioup of ropresontitive people who called upon her to make their ifnal tribute of what was due. Next morning: Miss k iernan left Dowlais for The North, and was accorded at the railwa~ v station an affeetioTvtte send-off. j

C. E. Wales Tour. I TO ENLIGHTEN THE PUBLIC ON C.O. I TREATMENT. A siiceesstu! South Wales tour has been mad e I w ith a view of informing the public with regard | to just the true facts about the Government treatment of C .(). s by Mr. C. E. Ammon, of London, whose activities included addresses to a speejdly invited representative meeting at the Wa?erley Hot(?l. Ponty))oo). on WednesdaT l.l<\>hrm1!'Y 2(?tli a mass n.??tin? at Hrvnmnwr on th??nd: ?h))? on S?tmdnv (23rd) <:onfer- eneo of thp?.C.F. branches in East Glamorgan n nd }[O!HII (IUt.f¡, hire ,nl< held at th? I. L. P. ?'?""?. ?'?p?!l. presided n\-er by A!?r H. E. Griffiths (Newport), and addressed bv Mr. Am- '"o". It was then decided to commence a vi?or- mis propaganda to secure the release of our tor- tt"e<! to tlle of olli- to?-- by a well-attended public meeting, at. which Mr. Amnion was the principal speaker. On Sunday afternoon a lurther conference was held it.tl?e f Central H?II. Swansea, for branches in that i art-a, and proved one of the most successful held under the auspices of the N.C.F. Comrade Am- nion put some fire into the members, and Conn. Tal Mainwaring. who is again in the fight with Ih. presided. The conference was followed by a meet,ing at the T.L.P. Rooms, Swansea, fomrade Ammon I will be down again on March 22nd, 23rd and 2-ith, to address another senes of meetings. On Thur.day. Fehrnary 28th, a deputation from the (i>11"cil and Cardiff Branch waited upon the ( ard,ift trades and Labour Co-Liiicil and put the case for the Cardiff men now in prison and interned, They had n very sympathetic hearing.

DOWLAIS WOMAN SENT TO PRISON. J Francis Powell, aged 39, described as a shop- keeper, of Dowlais, indicted for wilfullv ill- treating her illegitimate child, Irene, aged 7! years, was sentenced at the Glamorgan Assises on \Yediiesday to twelve month's imprisonment with hard labonr. ) The ?videnw was that the girl had been beaten, tied to a bed-post, kept standing on one II toot holding woighgts, kept without- food. and (} insufficiently clad. The defence was a. denial and a submission tb at only necessary chastisement had been ad- A ministered. 

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