Foreign News: Squirrels v. Bankers

Mother of the British Labor Party and still its most potent mentor is that mighty group of British labor organizations whose Trade Union Congress met last week in storied Nottingham Town, onetime haunt of exemplary highwayman Robin Hood.

Almost at once the galleries became full of fist fights. Not in years has British Labor's turbulent left wing given and taken so many sanguine noses. No less than nine ushers had to join forces to eject a burly young heckler who kicked and punched while he howled: "In the name of our 2,000,000 unemployed—down with...

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