The Star of Socialism on the Wane Trade Union "
tyranny " in Australia has been broken where this was least to be expected. In the Queensland elections last Sunday the Socialist Government suffered its first reverse for fourteen years. The success of the combined Nationalist and Country parties is all the more significant, since the Labour Premier, Mr. McCormack, had made gallant efforts to curb the extremists of his party, and had prepared an elaborate programme of industrial development for the relief of unemployment. The new Government is pledged to the same policy, with this difference—that in place of State extravagance and political jobbing there will be a deliberate encourage- ment of private enterprise. Another blow to doctrinaire Socialism—as also, indeed, to M. Poincare's own policy— is the triumph of Home Rule party candidates in Alsace at the municipal elections last week. The number of Socialists on the Strasbourg municipal council has been reduced from twenty-four to seven.
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