News of the Week T HE House of Commons in the
past ten days has had inflicted on it two scenes of noisy interruption which affect the whole immediate prospect of Parliamentary business. They further isuggegt that the notorious inability of the Labour Party to Conduct the business of an Opposition with effect may possibly pass into a stage of temporary self-induced paralysis. This at all events would happen if the left wing of the Party should break away from Mr. 3facDonald in the matter of the Com- mission for India. The clamour on Wednesday night when Mr. Hope, the Chairman, was so grossly insulted that the Speaker had to suspend four Labour members in succession, occurred during the debate' on. the Unem- ployment InsurariCe Bill.. The delay caused by these outbursts makes it uncertain when we go to press whether the Government will be-able to give titne, as they intended to do, for the Labour vote of censure on the Government next Tuesday. The demonstration of last week, when the Labour Party shouted down the President of the Board of Trade, had apparently been- arranged. The point, of course, was that the Prime Minister, in putting up Sir Philip Cunliffe,Lister- to speak 'on. the coal mines, wes belittling -the most poignant industrial problem of the day and insulting the Opposition. It was his obvious duty, it was argued, to take control of the debate himself. There are several comments which seem to be demanded by this situation.
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