UNEMPLOYMENT.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19957, 18 June 1930, Page 11

UNEMPLOYMENT.

passage of emergency MEASURES.

MR LLOYD GEORGE'S OFFER.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —BY ELECTZIC TELEGRAPH— COPYRIGHT.) (Received Juno 17th, 7.20 p.m.) LONDON, June 17. An offer made by Mr Lloyd George to tho Government of the whole support of the Liberal Party for ensuring a sound and dependable majority for tbe emergency measures necessary to wage War on unemployment, is contained in >an exclusive front-page interview by Mr Lloyd George in the "Daily Herald." Ho declared that the problem must bo treated at a national emergency session for the enactment of emergency measures. It might require half a dozen pieces of first-class legislation dovoted wholly to the , war against unemployment. A united effort on the part of the whole nation could save the situation. He would make the duration of Bills five years, which was long enoqgh to cover the period of emergency. Mr Lloyd George opposed subsidies on wheat and cereab, which measure, ho said, had been tried in the war and had been abandoned because it had proved to be too costly. He described Labour's land, coal mines, and slumclearance programmes as too modest The Liberals would give the Government a majority for more drastic schemes, which ought to be discussed by small committees round a table like a meeting of Cabinot or a directors' meeting. Ho did not want any position, for he was tired of office ana it 3 cares; he only wantod to do something to help. "I'm an old man, but I'm not dead yet," he concluded.

NO LIBERAL-LABOUR COALITION. THE "DAILY HERALD'S" COMMENT. (VHITED P2E5i3 ASSOCIATION —BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIQHT.) (Received June 17th, 11.50 p.m.) LONDON, June 17. The "Daily Herald," editorially commenting on Mr Lloyd George's proposals, dismissed emphatically any idea of a Liberal-Labour coalition, which Labour would not have, nor was it possible for Labour to avoid viewing , Mr Lloyd George's new orientation with out a certain degree of suspicion that the gifts which the gods have showered upon him do not include the sovereign virtue of consistency. In vain the interview was scanned for clear and concrete ideas on any of his emergency proposals.