BRITISH POLITICS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1931, Page 6

BRITISH POLITICS

GOVERN! ENT’S DIFFICULT!***. FATE OF TRADE DISPUTES BILL. [United Press Association—By Eleetri Telegraph. —CApy right.] (Received this day at 8 a. 111.) LONDON, February 21. Tlie fate of the Trade Disputes Bill continues to hang by a thread. Attorney General .Jowitt met Laborites and explained secretly the difficulties confronting the Government in fulfilling their pledge owing to the attitude of the Liberals, who were insisting on stiffening the limitations on sympathetic strikes. The Conservatives certainly would support any Liberal amendment in that direction and the inevitable result would be the defeat of the Government. It is understood that Labouritios made it clear they would prefer to lose the Bill rather that see it weakened. As a matter of fact it was already too weak, and not the Bill they expected.

Meantime the Government’s troubles have increased by the prospect of Sir 0 Mosley’s resignation, accompanied by his wife, Lady Cynthia, and also possibly by AY. .T. Brown and John Strachev. The new Mosley manifesto is issued advocating control of imports by tariffs, economic partnership with the Dominions, and stabilisation of the internal general price level. The “Daily Herald” hints on the possibility of an • alliance of Mosley and Beaverbrook.