2 MARCH 1918, Page 3

Other classes, we repeat, are genuinely anxious to help on

the Labour movement if only they are not wilfully estranged from it. There never was such an opportunity for Labour. If an honest and frankly confessed love of country is joined to a desire to make industrial life worthy of the country we all want Britain to be, the demand will be irresistible. The motto for Labour should be " Unrestricted output and unrestricted wages." If British Labour produced all it could, even the appalling Debt which faces us could be wiped out within a few years. As for the rest, it would not be merely a question of employers being " grateful " enough to pay the higher wages ; it would, of course, be to their advantage to do so. They would pay themselves in paying their workmen.