Elections To Decide Fate Of Steel Bill

Chronicle (Levin), 18 November 1949, Page 5

Elections To Decide Fate Of Steel Bill

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Received Thursday 7. oi) p.m. LGXljoN, Nov. 17. The Conimous agreed last night that the N'ationalu-al io i of the iron and steel industry should 1 >e held up ti 11 the electo s had the opuortunity of givuni their decision at the General Election. If Labour vvins. the iron and Steel Bill will be put into o[»eration. If the Conservatives gst a majority one of their lirst steps will .e — as Mr Ghurcliill put it — "to exj.unge from the statute hook this wanton, \,ast.'iui, [>artisan measure whi.di ttiany oi those a.^.-ociated with it do not in their hea'rts believe." Alr Churchill demandt d an earlv election to reniove the uncertainty vvhich he saisl was damaging the national effort. "E\ erybody kii'nvs this Parliament is deab, he h"-i:ired. Mr IJei!. u'f A:..r.-;s..ii said Ihe date for the election was a niatter for speculation. "It will eou,e when it comes," he said but he denb-d that the postponenient of the Steei Bill had anything to do with the daC>. Postponement had been forced on tue Government by the attitude of the Lords.