BIG LANDSIDE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 57, 29 October 1931, Page 3

BIG LANDSIDE

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FREE TRADE STRONGHOLD CAPTURED BY THE CONSERVATIVES labour loses industrial centres lBINET practically secure

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Rec. Oct. 28, 7.40 p.mLONDON, Tuesday. The "Daily Herald" admits a sweepl defeat stating that Labour's inistrial stronghold was carried in mcashire and Yorkshire. It attriites the result to the "National ict." Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, jwcastle, and Bradford all show dermination to aid National re-con-ruetion. Beaten by New Forces Mr. J. R. Clynes, after his defeat, id: "We were beaten by a combinami of new and powerful forces, inuding the emotional appeal behind ; with the National Government, aho

y the power of wireless and the unitd hostility of the Press. The National Cabinet is practically :eure. Mr- Stanley Baldwin, Sir Samuel ioare, Mr. J. II. Thomas, Mr- Moville Ihamberlain and Sir P. Cunlilfeister have been returned. Mr. Snowden has retired and only sir. Ramsay MaeDonald's figures are iutstanding. Lord Reading and Lord Sanky comilete the ten members of Cabinet. The devastating landslide is best ilustrated by the successive returns iona Burslem and Bradford Central, ioth industrial centres being captur:d by the Conservatives after exciting :ontests. A Lloyd-George Liberal, Sir. Dustin Blackley, went down at Slanchester before his Conservative jpponent. A New Party supporter igured at the bottom of the poll, at Slolme, Manchester. Lord Apsley who worked in Austraiia as a farm migrant, delighted his Eriends by reversing the Labour victory in a straight fight for Bristol Central. Miss Bondfield's defeat was remarkable. Her repeated demands in the Eouse of Commons for huge loans for the National Insurance fund made her regarded as a dole champion and she was expected to retain Wallsend, whieh had been a Labour seat since 1922, and is an important ship-build-ing centreXo one forecasted Mr- A. V. Alexander's downfall at Hillsborough. He w,v one of the pillars of the Co-oper-athe Society and a strong advocate of the free breakfast table, under whieh the society is one of the biggest purchasers of Russian wheat. Mr. Clynes's loss at Platting was also a great surprise. It is already apparent that Lancashiro has abandoned her traditional "fr.-e-trade" stand, as every one of Manchester's ten seats are now Conservative, the party gaining five from Labour and two from Liberals, the remainder being unchanged. Sir Oswald Mosley forsook Smethwiek, where a Conservative drubbed the offieial Labour candidate and sought refuge in his wife's electorate at Stoke-on-Trent, where he and the offieial Labour man were confounded by a. strong Conservative woman.