1 AUGUST 1925, Page 3

It is a pleasure to welcome the first British Common-

wealth Labour Conference. The Conference opened in London on Monday. There were delegates from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India. We read with satisfaction Mr. Ramsay Mac- Donald's address in which he ridiculed the idea that only Imperialists cared about the Empire. We do not agree that the Government would do well to turn itself into a wholesale buyer from the Dominions, but it is entirely good that there should be such a Conference as this. We sincerely hope that it will be permanent.