UNEMPLOYED

Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1930, Page 6

UNEMPLOYED

APPEAL BY BRITISH LABOURITES

L United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]

LONDON, May 27

Two noteworthy references to unemployment were made in speeches delivered last night. Mr Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister, addressing the constituents of Seaham Harbour, said that the unemployment problem had changed since the general election. It would not then have been fair, he said to ask the other Parties to co-operate with Labour. The Government bad its policy and the Tories had their policy, and they could'not be united. The circumstances wore now changing on the national aspects of unemployment, and the Government would now welcome any amount oi.-co' operation.

Mr D. Lloyd George (Liberal Leader), speaking at Nottingham, said that he would be surprised if the unemployment figures stopped 1 before they mounted dp to two millions. Therefore, it was essential for all men ol goodwill to devote themselves to ending this evil, which was eating the vitals of the nation. The Liberals had put forward a policy, hut they renounced all right to it. Lot Labour, he said, take it and act upon it. These two. speeches gain further significance from /the fact that Mi. MacDonald assumed the chairmanship of the Cabinet Committee on Unemployment on the eve of the adjourned debate on Wednesday on the salary of Rt. Hon J. IT. Thomas, the Minister for Unemployment.