Mr. C. R. Buxton, for instance, proved by his speech
at Carlisle that he has taken to heart the rebukes of 3Ir. Ramsay MacDonald and the contemptuous resigni- tion of Mr. Snowden. He thinks that the I.L.P., having long ago created the Labour Party, ought to return to its original function of a thinking, teaching and propa- gandist institution, instead of running its own Parlia- mentary candidates and interfering with.the daily routine of the Labour Party. The defeat of the motion to refer the Party Report back to the Executive means that the I.L.P. still stands for " Socialism in our time." The most interesting debates of the Conference were those on the Living Income and war credits. The original recommendations on the Living Income were made in 1926, and were revised at Norwich last year. This year the Living Income Committee submitted further proposals. The chief of these was that the fixing of the standard income should be undertaken before, or imme- diately after, a Labour Government comes into power, and that it should be obligatory in all emplOyment directly or indirectly under Government control, and be the basis of unemployment alloWances and of pensions. As for private trade the instructions to Trade Boards would be amended so as to make the achievement of the standard as rapid as possible. A period of two years was proposed as the time-limit.
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