BRITISH ELECTIONS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 November 1923, Page 2

BRITISH ELECTIONS.

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABI.E ASSOCIATION. CAAIPAIGN NOTES. LONDON. Nov. 20. -.C-iliuie! A ry, opening his campaign ni Sprakbrouk, Birmmgimur saitt he had ln-ver hoped to play a Ixitlor wicket than he had to-day. Whatever bowling came, the Government would welcome it. The present election was the result of Air Honar Law’s pledge but Mr Collar Law always believed a fundamental change in the iiseal policy was necessary. Believing as they did that they had a remedy for -» unemployment, the Government- asked the people to allow them to apply tint remedv. They did nut wish to hang on tn the office and potter about with palliatives. The election campaign is now in full swing, and speeches are being delivered all over the country. Lord Beaverbrnk. writing to the "Sunday Express" declines that the election is not justified in expediency, because it has disturbed Tory unity, re-unned Liberalism, and exposed the Government to the risk of serious defeat. At the same time he advises the electors to vote for candidates supporting Empire development. The three parties are issuing manifestos. There were two Cabinet meetings yesterday, the second one at night,, being devoted to the considerntiini of the Government's declaration. Lord Curzon was absent owing to illness. The Labour Exchange met. and approved their document. Labour members complain that the members Servian in the last. Parliament, who are re-elected will lose nearly two months’ pav and thev protest against the delay in the swearing-in formalities after the election. MR HALDAYIN ATTACKS MR LLOYD GEORGE. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON. Nov. 19. Mr Baldwin, at the Queens Hall, said; "It was not tor Air iJovil George who introduced the worst and m<sst'~ludierous liseal budget in 1909, a fiasco which would have finished anyone with less resilcttcv than Mr Llov I George, to tiud fault with Lord Devonshire’s calculations. The latter, at

any rate, possessed the country's confidence for his rightness and straightness of character whether liis opponents disliked it or not. The supreme issue of the election was ttiiemplovment. Britain was the world's shock absorber and whv should the "hole weight of the burden of the world's contracted trade fall on our should"!'', instead of being shared by other countries. AYe cannot wait for a settlement, hut must look alter ourselves. AYe have striven, are striving and will strive for a settlement of peace Meantime. 1 am not foment to v.argil our industries being chippie:!, under our ovi-s hv the countries which have fenced themselves in prohibitive tarifls and arc thus able to undercut us by dim of the foreign exchange. The time In - come when we cannot, continue tlic unarmed light. AYe him realise thai important as i* foreign trade, we niuu look to the home trade, which we have long neglected. I do not claim that my proposals are a universal panacea and that unemployment will completely disappear, or that a pintpot will hold a quart and we will get liinepenee for four])', ice ; hut I believe from the bottom of my heart that mine are the only proposals. directed to one end, and that is lighting the nightmare of unemployment. AYe have the greatest cause for which we could light as we are fighting fur the underdog.” SIR R. HORNE SHEARS. 'Tfeeoivc-d this day at 5.30 a.m.) LONDON'. Nov. 211. Sir R. [lonic, sneaking at Glasgow, said that Air Asquith and .Sir J Simon, wlio had been retaken to Air Lloyd George's hieum, had been demumciiig the granting of any preferences whatever to tin Dominions. AYas Air Lloyd Gorge going tn recant everything which, in the war’s gravest moments, he had solemnly agreed to with the Dominion Ministers:' Sir R. Horne refused to believe it. In continuing. Sir Robert. Horne pointed mil l hat Mr Bruce had disclosed an attempt by other countries tn make reciprocal trading arrangements u itli Australia. • Could Britain afford to risk the chance of losing the preferences received from the Dominions r Britain would never support a party which failed to do justice to the dominions or limited our Imperial destine.

GREETED AS METERK PR MAHER. LONDON. Nov. 20. A large crowd fnrewelled Alt* Ramsay AlacDonald. who is going on a provincial tour. The crowd sang the ••Red Mine" and cheered “Our Future I’litne Al iuisier." .Alt* AlacDonald. said the election would decide whether Labour was to he a subordinate or a governing political power. Britain wanted more than the Conservatives and Liberals were offering. Labour alone could give it. .international pence, home development and the co-operation of brains with muscle—on that platform Labour stood and wits there lore going to win. BECK LEY TERNEI) down. LONDON. Nov. 2d. Lt. Col. Buckley declared that lie had offered to stand for his constituency* as a Conservative Free Trader, hut the local association refused, and was selecting a new candidat".