APPEAL TO ELECTORS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 April 1929, Page 3

APPEAL TO ELECTORS

BY CHURCH LEADERS

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

LONDON, April 10

Fifteen Antjclll Bishops and loaders of the Presbyterian and the Nonconformist Churches have issued a message appealing to the Christian electors to give full weight to the following five considerations:— (1) They must return to Parliament men and women, who will insist that all international disputes, without exception, shall be referred to arbitration ; and men who will, without delay. press forward a drastic reduction in armaments.

(■>) They must return men who wili demand a more intense and a mere comprehensive effort to grapple with tiie coal industry problem, as, though the relief of distress is necessary as a palliative, it leaves the real problem unsolved.

(3) There must he a more aggressive policy of slum clearance, and improved housing. The previous efforts have been inadequate to deal with this intolerable wrong. (4) Education must be continued beyond the age of fourteen years. Disastrous deterioration over-frequently occurs at present between the ages of fourteen and eighteen.

(4 ) Though the payments deplorably known as the “doles’’ imply some recognition of the common responsibility, they cannot be regarded as an adequate solution, and the people must elect candidates who will do their utmost to secure opportunities for work in Britain or overseas for all. i'cil .-'s-ocially for the young, who. at present, have no hope of finding work.