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In view, therefore, of the refusal of the Government to

grant facilities for the consideration of the Bill introduced this Session to carry out this object, or to guarantee fulfilment of their pledges to provide for the payment of Members, they appeal to all affiliated organisations to co-operate in enlightening public opinion on the issue, to approach their Parliamentary representatives on the subject, and to urge their members to make this a teat question at all elections. We deal elsewhere with this ominous manifesto, which, as Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, one of the Board, has expressly stated, involves a big campaign "with the gloves off "throughout the country on behalf of the liberty of Trade Unionism to use legislative powers to advance the interests of workers.