BRITISH POLITICS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1931, Page 6

BRITISH POLITICS

POLICY OF SOCIALISM

LONDON, January 27

The Parliamentary Labour Party has rejected, by 97 votes to 13, Sir Oswald Mosley’s supporters’ resolution, cabled on January 22m1., requesting the National Executive ol the Party to summon a national conference on the subject of unemployment. Rt Eon. A. Henderson advised the meeting to await Mr Ramsay MacDonald’s address to the party which is to bo delivered on February 2nd.

TRADES DISPUTE BILL,

LONDON, (January 7

In the House of Commons, Sir John Simon (Liberal) said that the Government had two enormous questions on its shoulders, those of unemployment and India, and yet it, chose at this time of crisis to introduce the complicated Trades Dispute Bill, which could only have been intended to facilitate evils which the country had resisted in 1926. Continuing, ho said that they well knew that this Bill would never become law. It would be discussed and emasculated for months, but “honour would be satisfied” the Government would have done its duty to the Trades Union Council. He said Mr Lloyd George was right in declaring that the Ministry had given its attention to everything except the question with which they had been elected to deal, namely, that of unemployment.