LABOUR’S ULTIMATUM
PARTY CHIEFS TOLD TO RELIEVE DISTRESS | GIVEN TWO WEEKS United P.A. — By Telegraph Copyright] Reed. 9.45 a.m. LONDON, Thursday. } The dissatisfaction of a group of I Labour members with the Govern- j ment’s unemployment policy reached j a head at a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party, when bolder j measures were demanded. In spite of the explanation of Mr. J. H. Thomas, Minister in Charge of.;
Unemployment, a resolution was car- j tied without a : division calling on: he Government to übmit to a meet-; ug a fortnight hence its consid- \ red opinion re- j tarding a secret j nemorandum pre- 1 ared by Sir Os-!
-v-, wald Mosley and Mr. J. H. Thomas the Rt _ H ' n . G Lansbury, stating the reasons for the j rejecting of all or any of its sugges-1 tions. These suggestions include the re- j moval of the young and the aged I from industry by the raising of the j school age and pensioning workers ■ over 65 years of age, and also estab-: lishing an imports board to regulate i imports in the interests of the work-; ers. It recommends also the starting, of j direct works financed from a special! development fund.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 933, 28 March 1930, Page 9
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