It may "be remarked here that Mr. Ramsay Mac_ Donald's
- change -to. uncompromising language after the reasonable and Cautious words which he had used outside- the House was characteristic. Only the other day he "adraitted that certain reforms in connexion with. trade unions " might be necessary." Yet here he Was on Tuesday trying to arouse the frenzy of his followers before he knew what the Bill would propose. Perhaps the chief cause of the notorious ineffectiveness . of the Opposition in Parliament is that under Mr. MacDonald-s leadership one never knows what policy it really stands for. We hoped that the Government would consult Labour about trade union reform before the Bill was drafted. This would at least have given Labour the opportunity of proving that it really desired peace. If Labour had refused consultation, the public would have known exactly where the blame lay. But even now the door is open to those who arc really peace- makers, for Mr. Churchill in the continued debate on Wednesday announced that when- the Bill had been introduced Labour could ask that its opinions should be heard before the debates began. Will not Labour accept the invitation ? Surely, if its professions arc genuine it can hardly refuse.
