The Labour Party Executive and the Parliamentary Com- mittee of
the Trade Union Congress met on Tuesday and empha- sized their refusal to take part in the Committee on unemploy- ment, although the Government had expressed their readiness to broaden the terms of reference. The Labour leaders decided to appoint their own committee which is " to formulate prac- tical schemes for securing immediate relief for those men unem- ployed," and to report to a national conference on January 27th. Their object is of course to bring forward some extravagant scheme—such as to pay every unemployed man £2 a week indefinitely—which no responsible Government could accept, and then to suggest to the unemployed that " Codlin's the friend, not Short." We wonder what the Labour politicians would have said if the Government, for party reasons, had. proposed to defer the consideration of unemployment relief for a fortnight.
