In the House of Commons on Wednesday Mr. Ormsby-Gore moved
a resolution to the effect that the growth of an anti-' social policy of Syndicalism based upon class warfare and incitement to mutiny constituted a grave danger to the State. Mr. Ormsby-Gore, after explaining that his motion was purely academic, declared that Syndicalism was not the kind of Socialism which was advocated by the Labour Party, but that both had for their object the elimination of all kinds of com- petition. The Syndic&lists sought also for the elimination of the employer, whether the employer were the individual or the State. They were anti-Parliamentary, and aimed at the com- plete overthrow of society by an easier method than the Parliamentary—by a national general strike. The reason for the growth of Syndicalism, he added, had been the failure of ,he Parliamentary Labour Party to carry out their lavish promises. If the matter were put clearly to the working man, lie felt sure that he would reject it. Direct action could result in nothing but the most awful carnage and bloodshed.
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