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In .these circumstances, why waste time on a fight .which

very few people are spoiling for ? No doubt if the fight were staged it would become heated, but why stage it at all ? There is so much constructive legisla- tion required that we grudge every minute spent on the • superfluous. Of course, Mr. MacDonald's left wing may demand that he should act on his promise, but if the demand does not become imperative he will be wise to put national considerations above all others. There is, for instance, the Slum-Clearance Bill, which at present does not appear among the Government's urgent measures. Is it conceivable that men who really appre- hend the dreadful truth about the _slums should deliber- ately treat this Bill as of smaller importance than a wrangle over Trade Union methods*?

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