The proceedings of the Labour Party's Congresses are gener- ally
in sharp contrast to those of Parliament. In Parliament a great many wise things are said and innumerable stupid ones are done. In Labour Party Congresses the exact opposite is the rule. The speaking is often of the wildest, most violent and most irresponsible kind, but when it comes to action, good sense prevails. We greatly prefer this form of contradiction. We, as representing the " Macchiavellian capitalist Press," cannot, by the way, help rejoicing a little that Mr. Lansbury and his fellows should begin to feel the pinch of the particular shoe of which he is now complaining. Mr. Lansbury made a piteous plaint when he discussed the position of the Daily Herald, Though it was in the strongestrposition that it had ever been in, with a circulation of over 300,000, wages were going up almost day by day, and the price of paper was increasing so rapidly that the price of. the Daily Herald would have to go up too. He was clearly somewhat afraid of the consequences of such a rise—i.e., whether the paper, which, he might have added, was after all the goose• that laid the golden egg for the printers, would not suffer by a rise in price. He advocated a big develop- ment of the Labour Press.
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