PARTY POLICIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 230, 28 September 1928, Page 7

PARTY POLICIES.

PREPARE FOR ACTION'

Stocktaking With Eyes On

General Election.

BRITISH LABOUR AND "REDS."

(British Officii l Wireless.)

RUGBY, September 27.

It is generally believed that the next general election in Britain will not take place before the summer of 1929. Nevertheless, all three political parties "will have completed reviews of their election policies in the nest two weeks.

The Conservative stocktaking will be begun in earnest to-day, when 2600 delegates are to meet at Yarmouth. They will first hear a speech from the Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin.

The subsequent discussions will be concerned primarily with the industrial policy, including a scheme for relieving the productive industries of a large portion of their burdens, a scheme for the promotion of industrial peace and copartnership, and the possibilities of economy in the national expenditure.

The Conservative delegates are already at Yarmouth. They include several leading members of the Cabinet. SO members of Parliament and 50 election candidates.

One of the most important subjects to be discussed is that of the suggested extension of the safeguarding of industries by specific duties on imported goods. There are 13 resolutions on the agenda bearing on this subject, but the debate will probably be confined to a resolution to be moved by Sir Henry Page Croft, M.P. for Bournemouth, urging the widest possible extension of safeguarding consistent with the Prime Minister's election pledge.

It is anticipated that Mr. Baldwin will deal in some detail with this question, and with that of migration within the Empire as a contribution toward a solution of the unemployment problem.

On Sunday the annual conference of the Labour party will be opened at Birmingham. A statement of policy, which has been before the affiliated bodies for some time, will be discussed section by section. Included in the report is a recommendation which marks another stage in the Labour party's f.ght against the Communists' activities.

Former decisions of the conference of the Labour party have had the effect 01 excluding from the various party conferences delegates who are members of the Communist party, as representatives of the local Labour parties. But this bar has not been effectively raised against Communist delegates from the trades unions. If the recommendation is adopted it will lay upon the affiliated trades unions definite obligations not to send any Communist delegates to political conferences.

The Liberal party's conference wili assemble at Yarmouth next week to discuss the party's policy.

BALDWIN'S ADDRESS.

(Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) (Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, September 27. Mr. Stanley Baldwin, addressing the Unionist Conference at Yarmouth, congratulated the party on its fighting fettle. He referred to the long-winded, nebulous policy of Labour which, however, was a party in the making, while the Liberals were a party in the breaking. He favoured the removal or the reduction of European tariff barriers. I" ood would not be taxed if the unionists where returned to power.

The safeguarding of industries would not be used as a backdoor through which to introduce a general tariff and until the question had been submitted to the country no industry would be debarred from stating its case for safeguarding.

The Ministry would go full steam ahead with slum clearance, and regarding unemployment he hoped to be able to act at the earliest moment after Lord Lovat's labours in the Dominions.