Offer to Labour

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1001, 18 June 1930, Page 11

Offer to Labour

LIBERALS ASSURE SUPPORT Fight With Unemployment PACT PROPOSAL ROUSES SUSPICION THE British Liberal Party, through its Leader, Mr. D. Lloyd George, has offered to support the Labour Government upon questions of emergency, primarily with the idea ot solving the unemployment problem. The proposal, which is described as a united national effort, is viewed with suspicion bv the Labour organ, the -Daily Herald."

United P.,l.— D-j Telegraph—Copyright LONDON. Tuesday. Ail offer by Mr. .Lloyd George to the Labour Government ot the whole support of the Liberal Party, ensuring a sound and dependable majority for the emergency measures necessary to wage war on unemployment, is contained in an exclusive front page interview with the Liberal leader published " in the “Daily Herald.’* Mr. George says the problem must lie treated in a

The Leader of the Liberals is op- j | posed to subsidies on wheat and cereals. That measure was tried at the lime of the war and was abandoned because it proved to be too costly. He describes Labour’s land* coalmines and slum clearance programmes as too modest. The Liberals would give the Government a majority for more drastic schemes to be discussed by small committees round the table like the Cabinet or a directors* meeting. Mr. George says he does not want 1 any position. He is tired of office and its cares. He only wants to do some- ! thing to help. *'l am an old man.” he remarks, “but I am not dead yet.” The ‘‘Daily Herald,” commenting on i Mr. George’s proposals, dismisses emj pliatically any idea of a Liberal and I Labour coalition, which Labour will l not have. ; Nor is it possible, the paper says, : for Labour to avoid viewing the new “Georgian orientation” without a cor- ■ tain degree of suspicion. 4 Tlie gifts j tlie gods have showered on him do not include the sovereign virtue of » consistency.” I “iu vain will the interview be . scanned for clear and concrete ideas : on any of bis emergency proposals,* says the article.

be treated in a national emergency session for the enactment of emergency measures. They might require halt' a dozen pieces of first-class legislation devoted wholly to winning the war against unemployment. A united effort on the part of the 111*0 nation

: entire nation 1 ! could save the situation. Mr. George says he would make the duration of the Bills five years, which would be long enough to cover the period of om prp'dii f*V