LABOUR'S FREE SPEECH
PLANS AS TO HOUSING.
CSEDIER'I TELIOKAH.) LONDON,. 27th January. In a speech in London Mr. George Lansbury intimated that Mr. Macdonald had offered him a Ministerial post, but a? it was outside the Cabinet he decided it was not worth sacrificing his independence for. In a speech at Glasgow the Minister of Health (Mr. John Wheatley) strongly denounced housing conditions. He did not reveal his plans, beyond suggesting that the country's credit must be used to bring the unemployed into touch with building materials. He declared that the Government's demands for housing would vastly exceed the demands of the late Government. He was not 4t all'nervous. If the British people would support him- in; a reasonable scheme he would put the problem on the way to solution. .
. Mr.. George Lanshury was formerly editor of the "Daily Herald," the Labour paper. __
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 24, 29 January 1924, Page 5
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