POLITICAL OUTLOOK.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4432, 27 March 1930, Page 2

POLITICAL OUTLOOK.

ATTITUDE OE LABOUK. ' PROMISES MOST BE REDEEMED. A : galea, March 24. Suggestions that if the 'Government did not deliver the brand of “goods" required by the Labour Party when the next Parliamentary ,session opened the Government would find itself without a home were made by Mr. M. J. Savage, M.P. for Auckland West, at a district convention of supporters of the Labour Party on Saturday evening at

A" ga tea. Referring to the present state of l lie parties Ah - . Savage said the Government had survived one session of Parliament to date with the assistance of the Labour Party. Sometimes the Labour Party had \oted for something it did not want, having been compelled to choose the lesser of two evils. At a conference of the Labour Party recently a motion had been passed urging Parliament to meet soon, .sir Joseph Ward had replied that it would meet at the usual time.

When Parliament opened the lit.' lion. J. G. Coates, Leader of the Opposition, would undoubtedly move a vote of no-conlidence, couponed Mr. Savage. The attitude of tin* Labour Party would depend on what the Government proposed to do. Unless it was prepared to “deliver the goods" Labour would take , the lirst opportunity of putting it out. If the Government proposed to do what the Labour Party wanted the Labour Party was not likely to vote against it. Labour expected the Government to redeem iis election pledges and would judge it on its proposed legislation.

There were in the- House three groups with a few Independents. Parliament was no place for Independents. They were only a humbug.