ABSTRACT
The economic action of Labour is the soil of revolutionary ideas; it touches the elemental divergences of the classes in modern society; it is apt to pit power against power; it vibrates with the very life and its struggles for advance and renovation, and runs full tilt against traditional forms of thought and speech. The weakest point of Labour is their journalism. In politics it stood for democracy, in industrial matters for social reform, but it was not well supported by the labouring masses. The Parliamentary Labour Party watched with growing apprehension the fatal development of the tension between the various nations. During the last war, Parliamentary Labour assisted in putting on the Statute Book some of those hardy annuals or long-standing resolutions of the Trade Union Congresses and Labour Party Conferences, notably concerning the creation of a Ministry of Labour, agricultural minimum wages, and democratisation of the suffrage.
