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NEWS OF THE WEEK

I. Parliament during the week the Labour Party, or at any rate a portion of it, has been conspicuous. We have dealt elsewhere with what seems to us the unfair treatment of a Labour Member by the majority of the Commons. Here we must record the preposterous attempt by a minority not only of the House, but even of the Labour Party itself, to destroy the power of Parlia- ment and make Parliament appear odious to the working classes. On Tuesday evening the Labour extremists, copying the policy of the Irish Nationalists of fifteen or twenty years ago, obstructed business by long speeches and constant divisions. Their action, they declared, was a protest against the Government's policy towards unemployment.

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