The Red Light

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Excerpt from The Red Light: A Commentary on Mr. J. H. Thomas's When Labour Rules The leaders of the Labour party are looking forward to control of the Government of this country. During the war one or two of them were taken into the Government, but the party now aims at something much more ambitious than modest participation of that sort: it proposes to take complete control of the governmental machine. One of its leaders, the Rt. Hon. J. H. Thomas, m.p., regards the fulfiment of that ambition as so near that he has produced a book When Labour Rules - in which he sketches out the policy which a Labour Party Government will pursue when it seizes the reins. At least, one may suppose that such is the purpose of publication at this time though probably another motive, consistent with the former, is to be found in a desire to take up the challenge of a Coalition statesman as to Labour's unfitness to govern, and to show, by the elaboration of a policy, that there are Labour leaders who are fully competent to discharge the responsibility. As a leader of eminence in his party, and one accus tomed to write his views for public perusal, it is natural, and not unfitting, that Mr. J. H. Thomas, m.p., should have undertaken the task. But from the standpoint of the public desirous of learning themind and methods and purpose of the Labour party the choice is not altogether a happy one. Mr. J. H. Thomas has two voices - an extremist and a moderate voice. Usually the moderate voice is, heard, but there are bewildering quick changes. It is the moderate voice which breathes through his book, but is it, I won't say the real, but the permanent voice P There is in the decoration of the volume a funny little symbol of what I mean. The contents of the book are for the most part couched in terms of studied moderation, but the loose cover which enwraps it blazons forth a red ¿ag. There you have Mr. Thomas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.