Ephemera

A Branch of the Party has been formed in the North-west London District.

All communications to be addressed in the first instance to the General Secretary at Head Office 28, Union Street, London, W.1.

Readers who find it difficult or impossible to obtain the SOCIALIST STANDARD through the usual channels should communicate with the Head Olfiee, 28 Union Street, W., 1., when regular delivery will be arranged.

MR. HUGHES DAY BY DAY.

At Glasgow on Wednesday. In Britain, before the war, conditions were sordid and depressing — millions on the verge of starvation, living on the brink of a dreadful abyss.

At Aberdeen on Thursday. In Britain, before the war, the spark of divine fire had been choked by the ashes of prosperity.

“Daily News,” 2.9.1918.

Note:
The Mr. Hughes quoted above may have been the Australian Prime Minister, Billy Hughes, who was in Britain at the time this issue of the Standard was produced. There was no comparable British politician (or military figure, for that matter) with the surname  of Hughes in this period who could have been quoted in the Socialist Standard , with the understanding that the readership would know who it was simply by mentioning him by his surname. And what with him speaking in Glasgow and in Aberdeen on consecutive nights it suggests that Mr. Hughes was undertaking a national speaking tour. Socialist Standard readers would have had a particular interest in Hughes because he was an Australian variant of the ‘Labour Fakir‘, though, by 1918, he was no longer faking it.