21 SEPTEMBER 1945, Page 4

A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK

THE sessions of the T.U.C. this year have been of great interest not merely in themselves but also for the relation between the trade unions and a Labour Administration holding office with a large Parliamentary majority. The T.U.C. can take pride in the fact that it created the Labour Party. The I.L.P. had already been in existence for some years before the T.U.C. decided in 1899 to call a conference to " devise ways and means for the securing of an increased number of Labour memoers in the next Parliament," but the I.L.P. was more of a " missionary " society than a political party in the full sense of the term.

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