BRITISH ELECTIONS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 November 1923, Page 3

BRITISH ELECTIONS.

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION BALDWIN AND HI!! K ENH.KA D. 1,(.)N DON, Nov. Hi. 11l connection with the failure oi Mr Baldwin's negotiations with Lord Birkenhead, Mr Austen Chamberlain, writing to Mr Halilwin says lie infers, from l lie time that lias elapsed, that his and Dord Birkenhead's inclusion in the (,'«- vei'iiiner;t was not welcome to some oi •Alii Baldwin's supporters. lie concludes hy intimating that their assistance must therefore he confined to the support- they originally con■^^templatod. Mr lialdwiu has replied regretting that to make siiperinimarv Cabinet appointmeiits on the eve of the election would have hern to replace two ('Misting colleagues, which was unthinkable. Mr lialdwiu m a letter to l.ord Birkenhead, expresses his confidence that he would still give the Conservative Party full support at the election, particularly to hop l.ord Derby to “keep the (lag living” in Daneasliire. The Premier adds: " What is not possible now may he more easily accomplished later," when he hopes, he says, to achieve the complete union of the party. l.ord liirkcnhnad repiled: "Profoundly regretting that the common desire to wipe out I lie memory of past diflererues has been defeated hy forces which neither can control.” THE NEXT PA I! DfAM ENT. DON DON, Nov. IT. Ihe New Parliament, w ill assemble on December 20th. PIK ASPECTS OF I'AKTJEK. (Received tb ; s day at 2 a.m.) DON DON. November |x I he "Sunday Times” political colicspondent says flovernment expects to lose seats in Danea-hire, Yorkshire and Scotland, hut counts on eompcnsatii'g success in the- districts affc'lid' by dumping and by l.iberal-Dali'oir ho - tilily, which fnetor a!-o ch.'-l'iis the expeetiitions <o'' the other | ai lie-. Thcic i; no clouht the fhnrrnmont wl:i| s will he well pleased if the present' majority is not reduced lie-low liny. I.oml Hi aver*,rook, w riting c (ho

‘‘Sunday I\xnr<"." dedetes the elect ion is not justified in expediency, bcail-e it hits disturbed the Toty, .)?<■- united Diierali-m and exposed the tin. vernmonl to the risk i.f a serious defeat. At IL*: same lime he advises the i lectors to vole for candidates .supporting Empire development. DA BO El! i’AI’TY’S .MANIFESTO. (Dccoi'etl this day al 0.25 ii.nt.) DON DON. November 17. A manifesto i- -1 tc< 1 by tin- Dal".in Party condemns the tariiTs, which, it says, will not remedy unemployment, hut will poison the life oi Lite nation and impoverish the people. T lie D.tIx.iir I'arty alone has a positive remedy for unemployment. The manifesto outlines in this regard, an elaborate progiiitnme of lmfiomil schemes of productive work; also special

inea.'iires to i ext ore prosperity to agriculture by establishing machinery lor the regulating ol wages and assisting co-operative methods. ’I he party advocates a policy of international cooperation ihmiigh an enlarged League ’A of Nations, an immediate [Jrit.is!i conviteation til" an Intertwlioital l.oiilerenee to revise l!m Versailles Treaty and a resumption <T relations with Russia. The muiiitesto condemns the ladnre oi the Uoveriuneiit to reduce the war debt and says that a Dal,our Cham dim (it the Exchequer would immediately woi k out a- st heme to impose a nonlecun ing cradimted war te l.t redemption levy on nil individual id tunes exceeding live thousand sterling, which would be devoted -olcly to Hie reduction of the debt and which would facilitate the reduction of income taxes, the abolition ol lo*ml taxes. Die enteiiaiuments tax, the corporation pit,Ms tax, and at the same time provide money lor social .services. The party r.inis at the creation of a Common .w alih co-operative sotvice by the stionliiic orgniiiration ol industry and the control of public utilities. MU BALDWIN’S MANIFESTO. [ I! IU.TKUS TeLKOKAMS.] (Deceived this day at Sl.to non.) DUNDON. November IS. In tt manifesto to his -roiisl itiioiiN. Mr Baldwin says the object ol imposing duties on mnniifacttiled goods will (1) To raise revenue hy methods less unfair to home production. (2) To give special assistance to industries siitlering front untuir lorotgn competition, (3) To utilise duties in order D> negotinte for :i mluction in Inrcigu tatills. (I! To give substantia' pref.unce within the Etui ire on a whole rnngi <»' (lot ies. 'I he manifesto mentions that oats are among the m tides on which duties will ,-ot he imposed, am! intimates that ."!- (1 itit<n:i 1 revenue will he devoted, inter alia, to the leduction of duties *m lea

mid sugar. Tin' manifesto -ays that a su >-■ tial portion ol tii ■ seventeen lighted u>st .,s nml a variety ol smaller trait required in the next few ye n- " 1,1 laid down as soon ns pari ininenlai y sanction is secured, in older to the shipbuilding industiy. suggested po.vi.moN. (Received this day at. 10. t- «.t I.OXnON. Nov. 1. . Harold Spender writes to the press mproestinß as the maintenance ol Iree trade is the supreme issue at the elelion, liheralis.n and M our ought - lnve an eleeteral tiiiderstandnm. I : , ts out that the Conservatives .. S won 90 onto, 170 three cornered a.rlits on minority votes owing 1 3£L tween Liberals and Lnhountu*. . CAMPAIGN in FUEL SAVING. f aiocaived this day at 9.0 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 1". The oleetion campaign is now m lull swine, and speeches are being delivered all over the country. Mr Winston Churchill, in addressing a meeting at Manchester, declared that t)i o Government was rushing the i <•< tors with a hurriedly conceived and an jo terlv unexplained scheme which would' revolutionise the eommereial fiscal system. All constitutionalists should make a common effort to avert the threatened catastrophe. Free trade had not presented unity in the Empire in the past, and would not do so in. the future. The economic development ot the Kmpire ought to he the care ot all • parties in the State. The free traders hold themselves free to support, say, v scheme .for promoting anter-lmperi.il trade which would not cramp the win'd wide enterprise of the people, or hmven the necessaries of their lives. Earl Derby, speaking at a dinner at Norwich, declared that he did not intend to resign.