To take action even a short way along the lines
of the Report needs courage. If the Government should show this, we believe' that there would be a great response. The self-respecting wage-earner and his womenfolk would support courageous action taken with all possible humanity towards their less fortunate fellows. The trade union leaders so seldom give the members whom they profess- to represent credit for higher desires than for more money and less work. And it is to the trade union leaders only that the Government seems to listen. 'Mr. MacDonald is doing ill-service to the country and to democratic Parliamentary government when he allows the Council of the Trades Union Congress or others outside Parliament to dictate or even to sway the policy of the Cabinets The power of the Labour Caucus outside the elected Parliament of the Australian Union is a warning to all who believe in representative government.
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