occupation and enjoyment of their land, to prevent absolutely forced 
labour, whatever form it may assume, and to ensure that contracts 
between native workers and European employers are entered upon 
voluntarily and not under duress, that such contracts are subject to the 
approval of a public authority, and that they embody terms securing 
to the workers equitable conditions of life and employment. It will 
encourage the development of the services concerned with health and 
education. Its policy will be based upor. the firm conviction that all 
the dependencies of the Crown ought, as soon as possible, to become 
self-governing States. It will take steps, therefore, to transfer to he 
inhabitants of these countries, without distinction of race or colour, 
such maasure of political responsibility as they are capable of exercising, 
while imperial responsibility for their government will be maintained 
during the period preceding the establishment of democratic 
fnstitutions. It will instruct the Governments of these countries to 
extend to their native inhabitants such rights as may already, as a result 
either of legislative or administrative measures, have been acquired by 
Europeans, and to make it their chief aim, by education and otherwise, 
to prepare the whole body of their inhabitants for self-government. ft 
will co-operate cordially with the Mandates Commission of the League 
of Nations, and will make every effort to strengthen and extend its 
authority. 
THE IMPLICATIONS OF DEMOCRACY 
The Labour Party makes no pretence of offering a final solution 
of all the problems that will confront the nation during the coming 
years. It believes, however, that the condition of handling those 
problems successfully is a frank recognition on the part of public 
opinion that the policy of uncompromising resistance to economic and 
social reconstruction, which, with one short interval, has been pursued 
by successive Governments since 1918, is based on a profound 
misconception of the real position of Great Britain to-day, and must 
result if continued, in disaster te the nation. 
The Bankruptcy of Capitalism 
As the Labour Party sees the situation, changes both in economic 
and political organisation and in the realm of thought have combined to 
undermine beyond repair the social order inherited from the nineteenth 
century. Designed for the conditions of a world in which Great 
Britain had a virtual monopoly of certain fundamental conditions of 
economic success, and carried forward, long after that monopoly bad 
disappeared, by the impetus derived from its initial momentum, British 
industry can to-day secure well-being for the mass of the population 
only if it consolidates its forces, eliminates waste, and calls in the 
resources of science and organisation to make good the lost advantage 
of priority of development. 
But the gross and scandalous inefficiency of Capitalism in a 
score of industries—an inefficiency exposed in a long series of official 
publications, and which even its champions no longer venture to deny—