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Everybody must be struck by the paradox of a Labour

Government thrusting away from them the Sankey Commission and rigging up a capitalistic combination which can limit and fix prices under the shelter of the law. In the division on the second reading the Govern- ment only just got home. A strange scientific failure again ! Nobody really wanted the Government to be defeated, yet they very nearly were. The figures were 281 against 273—a majority of 8. Now we must look forward to the Committee stage for a vast improvement in the Bill, which is attainable if some tongues can be bridled and all parties will agree to place the cause of the nation above the sport of taking easy shots at their opponents.

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