BRITISH LABOUR POLICY

Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1929, Page 3

BRITISH LABOUR POLICY

BYE-ELECT lON STATEMENT

i ,• • • ; • I (British Official Wireless)

RUGBY, 'November 24. ; The Prime Minister, in a letter to Mr Aitchison, Lord Advocate for Scotland. wTio is 'the Socialist ■ candidate fin the Kilmarnock bye-election, has reviewed the Government’s fbreign and domestic policy and also .refers to the introduction) of legislation dealing with tile' coal industry. . ■ • . j Mr Ramsay MacDonald .said: ” The way of peace has been laid within the past six months furthpr than ever it has been, and we are now, hard at'work 'preparing for the J^ye-PowerNaval Conference, which, is. tp meet in tondon in January, to carry, tliis to j cessful issue. ...... u , ,j, ’ “ The.--conditions of the.coal industry will he dealt; with next. AYe strove J" hard to - get. agreement,' between the owners and the miners which -would. have given fair play to the workers—overworked and scantily paid—but we were unsuccessful in our efforts. We j shall proceed with legislation which we , believe, will commend itself to the great body of impartial people, and i which has the support of the general: body cJf the miners and of a not inconsiderable section of the coal owners, j Great will be the service clone to the whole community by any Government which will undo the mischief of the late Government, and will put coal-mining bn a satisfactory economic footing,; and establish within it the conditions and the' machinery for industrial peace and fair nlav.” -