Was it not Lord Haldane who only a week or two ago was talking of Labour's ''immature - youth"? Not from any one instance but from many does this conclusion result, and we feel that it finds ample ex-Pression in the present conference meeting at Scarborough. To have expected that the miners would remain quiescent with coal 14/. a ton dearer was to ignore their policy, for they have told us in so many words that they are trying to make the coal industry as at present conducted an impossibility. But one may be surprised at the strength of language used in their Indian self-determination resolution. We know the means employed by propaganda to act upon the emotions and its dislike in many cases of an appeal to reason. The Labour Con" ference has apparently been caught in the tide of such propaganda over recent events in India, and the immaturity to which reference has been made has meant the lack of the necessary corrective. The case of Brigadier-General Dyer has obviously been before them on thie present occasion, and they seem to have ignored local British opinion in India on the subject as expressed in the demonstration in his honour and the letter of appreciation upon his departure,
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