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Dr. Macnamara was evidently ready to do everything possible to

bring in Labour. He suggested that the recommendations dealing with immediate relief should be delivered by tho Com- mittee within a month—surely a very laudable condition to impose. It is scarcely credible, but it is a fact, that Mr. Henderson objected to this condition. Mr. Henderson, moreover, in his communications with the Government continually referred to the failure of the Government to carry out the recommendations of the National Industrial Conference of April, 1919. Will it be believed that the first recommendation of that Conference was that there should be a regular organizing of the short-time system—the very system upon which the Labour leaders have been pouring every kind of ridicule and contempt

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