SCATHING ATTACK

Hokitika Guardian, 1 August 1932, Page 5

SCATHING ATTACK

ON LABOUR PARTY CABINET’S POLICY DECLINED. (United Press Association—By Electric T uiograpli— Copyright.; (Received this uay a' 10.2-3 a.m.) Lo.\liij. s ouiy or. 3tv dl. G. Wells m the com sc of a scathing attack on the LaDour early, delivered at th e Liberal Summer -Schoo., •said “The King was so ill adviced as to depart from his proper political and social neutrality and lead the movement for cheeseparing and grinding the faces of tile* me civ in the interests of the debt collector, and not a soul ill the Labour Party said what ought to' have been said about the King, or that miserable campaign of unintelligent economic, which cast a dismal shadow on the closing months of 1931.’’ Sir Michael Sadder, chairman of the meeting, said he considered the reference to the King like a very dark -line in the large picture of national life, amplifying the strong admiration of gratitude for th e noble''* thing that the Prince of Wales and th e Royal Pami y were doing for the welfare of the country in the relief of suffering, and encouragement of the people.

Commander Kenworthy, commenting on Mr Weds’ statement, declared that the King acted within the constitution. The real villains of the piec e were Mr MacDonald and Viscount Snowden, who prepared the coup d’etat months previoui.i’y. Far from no Labour Party voice being rad, the Labour Party wei’e all prepared to go into the wilderness as they did, rather than be parties to rescuing the bankers at the expense of the' poor. Mr Wells’ facts were all wrong. Commander Kenworthy' disagrees with his criticism.

“The King took the new Cabinet’s advice that economy was absolutely necessary, but the -Labourites declined to accept the policy,” said Mr Lansbury when interviewed. ‘‘Nobody knows better than Mr Wells that ft was nonsense to say that Mr MacDonald, Mr' Thomas and a few others represented Labour.”