The Labour Party manifesto issued last November said : "
The Labour Party alone has a positive remedy for unemployment. . . . The Labour Party has urged the immediate adoption of national schemes of productive work." Writing as mere Unionists, we can only say that if the Government would produce the schemes which we supposed were ready long ago, instead of talking about them as future events which depend upon expert advice, they would receive a general support from us. We have urged over and over again that now when trade is slack is the very time to put our industrial house -in order. All the plant which cannot be attended to when every factory is humming with business-could be attended to now. Our roads are notoriously unfit for the traffic they carry, and will become progressively more unfit as motor traffic increases. When we are told that road. making is too skilled a job for any but a select few we ask leave to laugh. The War taught us otherwise. The debate was resumed on Thursday, but the critical division, on which the fate of the Government depends, will be taken after we have gone to press. The Liberals, of course, have it in their power to save or break the -Government.
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