LABOUR MANIFESTO

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 137, 8 December 1930, Page 11

LABOUR MANIFESTO

TO AVOID A CRISIS

THE EFFECT OF MkCHINERT

(Received Bth December, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 7th December.' Mr. A. J. Cook, Sir Oswald Mosley, Mr. Oliver Baldwin, and fifteen other Labour members have issued a manifesto urging action to avert a nationwide crisis. They urge the vesting of wider powers iv the Government, the creation of an emergency Cabinet of five Ministers without portfolios to execute a policy of creating a new balance between agriculture and industrial production, organising markets, controlling imports, and sheltering workers from sweating, dumping, and fluctuating prices; also ensuring eißcieney and a protective tariff, concluding Imperial and foreign trading agreements, reducing taxation, instituting slum clearance and rehousing, and using-unemployed for that work.

Eighteen members of the House of Commons have signed Sir Oswald Mosley's manifesto, which says that tho natural balance of trade should be developed under the commonwealth plan of mutual advantage not conflicting with foreign trade. "We should aim at building within the Commonwealth a civilisation high enough to absorb the production by modern machinery, which must bo largely insulated from the wrecking forces elsewhere," say the manifesto.