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to step in and block the social and political machinery which controls the welfare of the whole." The failure he attributed to three causes: (1) The inability of the Chairman of Leeds L.R.C. to keep out matter that did not properly belong to the L.R.C.; (2) The local L.R.C. took no steps to investigate our case until after the death of Sir J. Lawson Walton; (3) The resolution of the Labour Party at Hull had its effect.

Just before this election, and at the close of the "supposed" railway crisis, other incidents of a personal nature had been discussed, but I feel that no good purpose is served by relating them.