Mr. Clynes, speaking for the Labour Party, was not very
helpful. He said that half the unemployed were not registered slid that the Government proposals were inadequate. The main solution of the problem, ho declared, was " to get back to a real state of European world peace." Unfortunately, that 18 more easily saki than done; Mr. Clynes knows as well as we do that Great Britain alone, even if a Labour Ministry were in office, could not restore the old prosperity of Europe in a day or a year. Lord Hugh Cecil urged that wages must be elastic, rising easily in good times and falling easily in bad times, but he thought that this involved a co-partnership between employers and employed. Sir A. Smith said that the Ministry of Labour prevented employers and workmen from devising measures to lessen unemployment. Mr. Graham, the moderate Labour Member for Edinburgh, regarded the proposal to bribe the builders' unions into admitting ex-Service men as dangerous and mischievous.
