The debate was continued on Friday, February 5th, when Mr.
Dalton went a good deal further than Mr. Snowden. Mr. Lloyd George had evidently been thinking hard on the relations of Liberalism and Labour, and when his turn came it was expected that he would give a yes or no to the Labour hints of co-operation. What he did, however, was to warn the Socialists not to go too fast. Mr. Dalton's speech was evidently too much for him. After all, as he said, even "essential ". services meant such' things as clothes, iron_ and steel. When he adrnitted that a certain part of the road vias common to all he embraced, even the Unionists. The Minister of Labour had declared that every monopoly must be considered on its merits. Mr. Lloyd George himself suggested that two monopolies should be dealt with at once—coal and land.
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