The Labour Manifesto The spirit of the Labour manifesto is
expressed, with the emphasis of special type, in three sentences
The Labour Party is neither Bolshevik nor Communist. It is opposed to force, revolution, and confiscation as means of estab- lishing the New Social Order. It believes in ordered progress and in democratic methods."
As regards unemployment, the Labour Party proposes what has indeed been proposed by both the other Parties in different degrees—slum clearance, road making, affores- tation and assisted emigration. It is admitted that " the most important attack upon unemployment " must be to restore prosperity to the depressed industries. It is noticeable that in the passage which deals with the coal mining industry there is no repetition of the declara- tion that the Eight Hours Act will be repealed. In place of this declaration there is a promise " to reorganize the industry from top to bottom on its production and marketing sides and shorten the hours of labour." Obviously the Labour Party wants to leave itself free, after all, to return gradually to the seven hours day.
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