BRITISH POLITICS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 6 August 1929, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS

PROMISES NOT FULFILLED

LABOUR MEMBER ATTACKS GOVERNMENT

ASHAMED TO FACE CON STITUENTS"

(United Press Association -By Electric Telegraph -Copyright) (•'Times ('a Dies)

LONDON. sth August

"I can" think of nobody benefiting by the Labour Government but two reprieved murderers," said Mr .1. Maxton, Labour member of the House of Commons, at the Independent Labour Party's conference. "I make a charge a'gainsfc Socialists generally Unit they are adding their voice to the multitude, declaring that it is impracticable to do things in which they believe 1 and other members of the Commons representing industrial divisions, are ashamed to lace our constituents because Labour's promises are not fulfilled. If I had been Prime Minister, I would have seen that the unemployed had an adequate allowance, j would have- admitted Trotsky to Britain. ! would have recognised Russia immediately. I would have re-established the housing subsidy and raised the school age, so assisting unemployed."

"DOWN WITH MACDONALD"

DEMONSTRATIONS IN RUSSIA

("Times" Cables)

LONDON, sth August. "Tho Times" Riga correspondent states that the Bolshevik authorities ai'e staging Russian-wide demonstrations of protest against the "new rupture of Anglo-Soviet relations by the pseudo Labour Government." Factories and other establishments in Moscow, Leningrad, Kharkoi'f, and Artemovsk organised meetings and passed identical resolutions affirming their determination to give Mr MacDonald's manoeuvres the same response as was given to Sir Austen Chamberlain's, concluding with "Down with MacDonald."