24 MAY 1930, Page 1

All the same, we believe that if the nation as

a whole applied itself to fighting unemployment in the spirit in which it fought the Germans it could discover means of employment guiltless of. the financial heresies which the Prime Minister, Mr. Snowden and Mr. Thomas all repudiate. Such 'a campaign would mean a call upon the salving energies and the good will of all people who recognize that their country is in mortal danger. It is an occasion for the co-operation of all parties. In this way alone, so far as we can judge, will the Government be really able to check, and to deprive of its present appearance of reason, the threatening revolt of those members of the Labour Party who are not only disillusioned but bitterly indignant. The Government, we-are glad to say, are willing to have an All-Party con- ference on agriculture. Why not also on unemployment?