The Labour Revolt
The differences between the majority of the Independent Labour Party and the Government grow more acute. A good deal of feeling was aroused by the chastisement of Left Wingers who had been guilty of various breaches of discipline. Sir Oswald Mosley, leaping at a Party meeting to the rescue of Mr. W. J. Brown, who had been accused of quoting from a private Labour document in the House of Commons, won much applause by his passionate attack upon the Government. Unemploy- ment was, of course, his theme. Nevertheless, the Government are not more alarmed by Sir Oswald Mosley than they were ; they have taken his measure (which is admittedly a large one), and they know the worst that they have to fear from him at present. On Friday, November 21st, the feud spread. Mr. Maxton and his friends denounced the refusal of the Labour Party to confirm the candidature of Bailie Irwin in the Renfrew by-election, and they rushed off to Scotland to rally round the repudiated Bailie. They threaten to bring Scotland out against the Government.
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