NO OVERT ACTION

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 138, 9 December 1930, Page 9

NO OVERT ACTION

WAR DEBT POSTPONEMENT

FURTHER PROPOSALS

(British Official Wireless.) (Received 9th December, S a.m.) ETTGBY, Sth December. The manifesto issued by Sir Oswald Mosley and other Labour members of Parliament suggesting the setting nip of a Commodity Board representative oi producers and users, and the appointment of five Ministers without portfolio to deal with unemployment, states £hafc the signatories have no intention of taking action in Parliament that would result in replacing the present Administration by a Conservative Government. The signatories say they would be willir.g to grant tariffs provided the particular industry is efficient, that prices are controlled, and ' that trade union wages and conditions are observed. The manifesto is declared to be a statement of policy designed to meet the present emergency, but it can only be carried through if it secures national support. Besides the suggested appointment of an emergency Cabinet of five Ministers with wide powers, the manifesto proposes a national planning organisation for industrial development; an Import Control Board for foodstuffs with guaranteed price for agricultural products and protection of consumers against unfair prices; a Commodity Board for the control of imported manufactured goods; trade agreements with the Dominions; capital expenditure on constructive works; the creation of a public utility organisation; and temporary postponement of the repayment of the War Debt.