Important as are both these gatherings, there will be no
assembly at Wembley more pregnant with possibilities for good than the Imperial Labour Conference which is to take, place during the summer, and at which repre- sentatives of all the industrial and labour organizations, both in the Old Country and throughout the Empire, will be present. A special correspondent of the Observer tells us' thatthe idea sprang from the mind of Mr. Arthur Henderson. Whoever was responsible, the idea of summoning Labour representatives from all parts of the British Empire was an inspiration. All who are acquainted with conditions in the self-governing Dominions are aware how great is the need for better knowledge on the part of the various Labour movements of -one another. There have, in the _past, been many, occasions on -which delegates of Labour organizations from this country have visited the Dominions and vice versa ; yet, in the long history of the British Empire, and the rise to power of the Labour movement, this is the first occasion on which a kind of Imperial Labour Parliament has assembled.
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