If Labour is short of funds and the Liberals are
short of Men, the tabour Party is also suffering "from a worse rift than has appeared in any other Party. Mr. Maxton's revolt is said by the Independent Labour Party to be no revolt. It is difficult in these circumstances to know what word to use, but perhaps the situation is sufficiently understood by ordinary people when they say that Mr. Maxton goes on revolting. To meet such difficulties the Labour Executive has laid down a new standard of loyalty. " Only those prepared to advocate the principles and policy of the Labour Party should be engaged as speakers at public meetings by constituency parties." These words are, of course, aimed at the Communists, but it is obvious that they are applicable to Mr. Maxton and his friends, who by no means advocate the principles and policy of the Labour Party. The Labour Party no longer preaches the class war ; Mr. Maxton does. And then there are Mr. Cook and all those members of the Inde- pendent Labour Party who, while having " no inten- tion of disrupting the Labour Party," persistently deride it, *
