Mr. Morley made a speech at Scarborough yesterday week in
which he declared that he felt no alarm at the contest between Capital and Labour which was breaking out not only in this country, but in the Colonies also. If the unionist labourers thought, as was alleged, only of their own class, the rich and powerful, he said, had set them the example. Yes, they had set them the example, but we deny that they are setting such an example now ; indeed, we are not sure that it is not the sympathy shown to the unionist labourers by the richer classes which has encouraged them to take the decidedly selfish attitude towards unorganised labour which they have been assuming lately. Mr. Morley himself held his ground on the Eight-Hours question very firmly. He said that the proposal of a legislative limit of eight hours to the working day had died before it was born. As for the suggestion that every trade ought to make choice for itself what the working day should be, if that were adopted, he should think, for his part, of going to Turkey or Russia. To his mind, the alternative to a fixed number of hours of labour was not a great number of strikes, but the adoption of Boards of Conciliation, not a " round table," of which he had seen enough, but a square table in which the representatives of the labourers should be ranged opposite the representatives of the employers, and the justice of the question fairly threshed out between them.
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