Mr. Bonar Law is not a man with whom it
is safe to make such mistakes. He at once pointed out that there was no holiday as far as Ministers were concerned, and that while the House of Commons was sitting it was far more difficult for them to concentrate their attention upon the unemployed than it was during a prorogation. They must have time to prepare properly for the work of the coming session. The Prime Minister went on to point out that in his own case freedom from Parliamentary duties had given him an opportunity of meeting many people in the hope of stimulating work for the unemployed, and that in some cases he had been successful. For example, the Government's negotiations with the Port of London Authority would probably result in six or seven weeks' time in a thousand more men being employed in dock building. Roadmaking had been greatly stimulated and other schemes were being pushed to the extreme point. They had, besides, some eighty new schemes in hand. But Mr. Boner Law went on to insist, and here we most strongly agree with him, that the only real hope lies in the improvement of trade.
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