The Butler County Press

WHERE POLITICAL ACTION FAILS

Resignation of the Ramsay MacDonald government in England, to be replaced by a national government, with all parties participating, brings sharply to the front the extreme dangers faced by labor in the realm of partisan politics and independent labor politics.

Within the labor party structure the trade unions and the political leaders came to a point of disagreement as sharp as any point of disagreement between opposing political parties could be,

THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS

Regardless of the deep-seated industrial financial and economic troubles of England, the fact remains that in facing these difficulties the two components of the labor party split as wide open.

The whole British labor front is bound to be affected for the worse.

Instead of unity and solidarity within labor ranks there is dissension and dispute. Which is right and which is wrong matters little. There is a division, and that matters a great deal.

There will be in the United States no desire to express anything but hopes for the progress of the wage-earning masses of England, but the time is more than opportune to point again to the soundness of the American trade union policy in politics--partisanship to principles, but not to political parties.