Its leaders have kept the proposed land nationalization in the background, because they believe it cannot yet obtain a majority.

But it may be that the party itself is now ready to fight this issue out on a Socialist basis, even if, like the Socialist parties in Europe, such a decision promises to delay for a generation their control of the government.

If the party is ready, it has the machinery to bring its leaders to time, as it has done on previous occasions.

For it already resembles the Socialist parties in Europe in this, that it makes all its candidates responsible to the party and not to their constituents.

That is to say, while it does not represent the working people exclusively, it is a class organization standing for the interests of that group of classes which has joined its ranks, and for other classes of the community only in so far as their interests happen to be the same.
Already the majority of the Labour Party voters are undoubtedly working people.