10 SEPTEMBER 1927, Page 1

It was not humanly to be expected that the Labour

leaders, having undertaken not long ago to fight the Trade Unions Bill line by line and word by word, should announce at the Congress that they had entirely dropped that • policy. Nevertheless every man has to work with the tools at his disposal, and it is well known that the tools for attacking the Trade Unions Act are scanty and blunt. The carefully organized campaign against the Act all over the country Tell flat. If employers and employed can "get together," as we hope they will with all possible speed, the Trade Unions Act can be ignored, as no occasion will arise for invoking.it. • .We. have written in our first leading article on this subject, but here we may refer to another promising sign of the Congress, which was the rapidly growing dislike of the Minority Movement and all other forms of Russian influence. •