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That statement encouraged the belief that the refusal of Labour

to join the Government's proposed Committee on Unem- ployment was due to the refusal of the Government to refer both immediate relief work and the consideration of the ultimate causes of unemployment to a single Committee. From the account published on Thursday we learn that on Friday, January 7th, Dr. Macnamara gave way and offered to refer both the problems, as Labour desired, to the same committee. The Labour statement of last Tuesday said nothing about this. But worse follows. In the earlier part of this week resolutions were passed at various Labour meetings blaming the Government for clinging to a point which as a matter of fact Dr. Macnamara had conceded

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