LLOYD GEORGE’S OFFER

Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1930, Page 6

LLOYD GEORGE’S OFFER

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LONDON, June 18. : ; ,1

All of the newspapers reprint tlfe substance of : the “Daily Herald's” exclusive interview with Mr Lloyd George, which is being much discussed in the lobbies. The C.j.iservaLivo press suggests, though the. word itself is carefully avoided, that Mr Lloyd George is again seeking lor a coalition, to which Labour will not consent.

Labour circles treat Mr Lloyd George’s suggestions with caution and they point out that Mr Ramsay MacDonald is not likely to exceed his former appeals for the Opposition s co-operation, always insisting tliat'tne Government should retain theinitiative and the responsibility for decisions. ■ ' The Labour Party meets to-day, at the request of seventy of the members when there will be renewed uen.aitds, like Sir Oswald Mosley’s, for an active unemployment policy. The “Now's- Chronicle,” in an oditpiial, says: “If the Government is willing to 'consult flic Liberals on the unemployment ineasures, they will be assured 'of a' firm majority. It says that no question' of it coalition arises.

FRESH' ’ EFFORTS

TO ‘REDDDE' UNEMPLOYMENT

Important steps have been taken, foreshadowing a more vigorous national effort to reduce unemployment before the winter. After an appeal made by Mr MacDonald, the Conference of Municipal Authorities at the Guildnail, appointed a committee to cooperate with the Government in speeding up relief schemes. A similar conference is being held in Edinburgh shortly. Mr MacDonald in his appeal, likened the present situation to the situation after the Napoleonic Wars, emphasising that the position was piim« arily clue .to a world financial crisis, and declaring' that nobody had contributed more to tlfe .solution, of the problem;.-than Mr J, H. Thomas. He added"that' Mr Thomas liad -now.lbeen .transferred to fthe Dominion* Office in order., to carry on precisely the ayork he had done in recent months. Mr Thomas hiroselLlater told . a der-'.itaiibn • of manufacturers that the Gpvcrniqejrjr would enter the Jnipeiial and .EvbiVomic Conferences treacly, for the fullest and frankest discussion ol all methods of , encouraging, imperial trade.’k • 1