. At the Co-operators' Congress at .Cheltenham on Tuesday the
scheme for a political alliance with the Labour Party was, carried by a small majority. On a card vote there were 1,960,000 for the proposal and 1,843,000 against it. The verdict of about 1,000,000 other co-operators was not given, as their societies were not represented. The Cheltenham decision, in fine, rests on a majority of only. 117,000 out of a membership of about 5,000,000, and even that small majority is of doubtful value: The special correspondent. of the Times nted out that out of 80,000 members of the Liverpool Society, for instance, only 508 voted.. In other societies sunilarly small numbers interested themselves in. the atter. It .may be argued, of course, that if. there was o enthusiasm for the proposal there was at least no trong feeling against it.
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