public, whether as passengers or pedestrians, and to establish reasonable conditions of service for the transport workers. The safety of the public can be increased by the inauguration of a system of compulsory third party insurance, by more stringent control over the licensing of vehicles so as to ensure proper standards of equipment, and by the enforcement of effective standards of proficiency for all professional drivers of motor vehicles. The Control of Capitalist Enterprise The Labour Party will handle in the same practical and scientific spirit the problem of devising administrative machinery appropriate to the varying conditions of other industries. It does not forget, however, that even those industries which continue to remain in the hands of private capitalists exist for the service of the community, and that they must not be permitted to use their power to exploit the public. It will protect the consumer against excessive prices, by encouraging the development of co-operation, by establishing a stringent control over monopolies and combines, by enlarging the powers of the Food Council, and by utilising the experience secured during the war as to the advantages of the bulk importation of foodstuffs and raw materials by a public authority. It will rescue business from the humiliating tradition of secrecy which surrounds it to-day, and will introduce the maximum possible publicity as to costs and profits. It will prepare the way for the progressive extension of public enterprise into new spheres by investigations into the conduct of industry and methods of improving it, such as those which have been carried out in the case of coal, The Cotton Industry The Labour Party has been gravely impressed by the deplorable position of the workers engaged in the cotton industry. On the one hand, the Conservative Government, in defiance of its explicit and repeated pledges, has declined to carry into law the Bill amending the Factory and Workshop Acts which was introduced when Labour was in office, with the result that the great army of cotton operatives are still feprived of the standard of legislative protection to which, by general consent, they are entitled. On the other band, as a consequence of reckless over-capitalisation, speculation, and an Inefficient system both of organisation and marketing, the cotton industry has been confronted with a prolonged and alarming depression, which has produced widespread distress throughout the whole County of Lancashire, and which shows no signs of lifting. The Labour Party, acting in close co-operation with the Cotton Operatives’ Trade Unions, has urged the immediate appointment of a Royal Commission to explore the situation. But the Government, afraid, as usual, of offending its capitalist supporters, has refused either to listen to the proposals advanced by Labour or to put forward a policy of its own, The Labour Party, if returned to power, will grapple at once with this serious problem. It will raise the standard of working conditions by carrying out its programme of industrial legislation, including the long overdue ple)