ABSTRACT
Emergency Labour Conference had to face attacks on the home front as the Government tried to meet the depression by measures of economy and deflation and as employers pressed hard upon the Trade Unions for wage-cuts and for the withdrawal of concessions granted in the course of the post-war boom. Throughout the early 1920’s, the problems presented by the rise of the Communist Party and by its attempts to push its way into the Labour Party and the Trade Unions were giving constant trouble to the Party leaders. In the General Election of 1922 the Labour Party fought over two-thirds of all the seats in Great Britain—414, as against 361 in 1918. In the General Election of 1923, the Labour Party made its biggest gains in and around London. The pattern of the General Election of 1923 was simpler than that of its predecessors, because there was only one Liberal Party in the field.
