13 OCTOBER 1928, page 2

It Is Doubtful Whether Mr. Ramsay Macdonald Had Reflected...

all the implications of a statement on safeguarding which he made at the Labour Conference. He said that the right way to prevent unfair competition by means of sweated wages......

* * * * Meanwhile An Incident In Connexion With

the unofficial publication of the terms of the Anglo-French compromise is driving the French and American publics further apart. Mr. Horan, the Paris correspondent of Mr.......

The Labour Party's Policy On The Drink Question Was Feeble.

The decision to refer the whole subject to a Royal Commission lags far behind the ascertained facts. The Labour Party applies the policy of " public owner- ship " or "......

The Labonr Party Conference At Birmingham, The Greater...

whose proceedings we recorded last week, ended in an unmistakable rebuff for the rebels of the Independent Labour Party. The cloudy programme of sixty-five articles, entitled "......

We Wish That Mr. Snowden Had Said What Was To

be done with the proceeds of the Labour Surtax. Its inventors frankly wanted it for the remission of taxes on neces- saries and for social services, and only incidentally for......

Mr. Macdonald May Be Held To Have Estopped Himself By

this strange declaration from complaining of scarcity so long as it be brought about in a good cause. But we cannot help thinking that most Unionists would not be so anxious to......

This Surtax, As The Labour Party Calls It, Must, Of

course, not be confused with the present Surtax (Super- tax). Mr. Snowden, so far as we can learn, did not deal with the objection that the Labour Surtax could not be imposed......

We Have Written Elsewhere About A Disturbing Residue Of The

Anglo-French Naval compromise, but must refer here to the Italian reply to the proposal in general. Italy declares her willingness to accept any figure of naval limitation,......