Mr. FIewins, who seconded the motion, said he did not
accuse the Labour members of being Syndicalists ; but as to some of their Radical friends he felt less sure.. Their policy If entirely negative action in regard to all trade matters was one of the greatest causes of discontent at the present time. It seemed to him that there was a kind of fundamental con- gruity between the ideas of those who accepted economic Liberalism and. those who carried those ideas to their con- clusion and 'became economic Syndicalists. Syndicalism was the child of those ideas, which were intensely individualistic and intensely selfish. Mr. Hobhouse, while refusing the Government's support to the motion, expressed their willing- ness to make inquiries into the causes of the rise in prices and the cost of living in this country. But since these phenomena were found in nearly every country, he thought it would be much more satisfactory to carry out a far wider inquiry, and to such an inquiry the Government would be prepared to assent. Mr. Ormsby-Gore's motion was eventually talked out.
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