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The Labour Party altogether cuts a very poor figure with

its forcible-feeble, rhetorical treatment of the whole subject. In what is perhaps the greatest crisis of unemployment which the country has known, it turns out that Labour has no scheme of its own although it has had years to prepare one. It negatives the attempts of the Government to devise immediate relief and suggests a process which would certainly mean delay—the very thing denounced by all Labour speakers. The account of the negotiations which was published in the papers of Thursday shows how earnestly Dr. Macnamars, tried to speed up schemes of immediate relief and how stubbornly Mr. Henderson resisted. Moreover, the Labour Party in a statement which was published on Tuesday night misled the public, to say the least of it.

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