REAL TEST COMING

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 10169, 28 July 1924, Page 5

REAL TEST COMING

LABOUR S CHALLENGE,

A SOCIALISTIC MEASURE.

COMING PARLIAMENTARY FIGHT

(Per Press Association —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) (“Sun.”) LONDON, July 27. Mr Patrick Hastings, K.C., Attor-ney-General, speaking at Wallsend, referring to the Housing Bill, said he saw only one way to get building materials and that was for the Ministry to fix the prices. If manufacturers would not sell at those prices the Minister must be empowered to take over their works and produce materials at a fair price. A Bill embodying these provisions had been introduced in the Commons. It might surprise many people to know that compensation was not paid under the Bill for loss of property. There would be such a fight over the Bill as the Commons had never seen. If passed, the public would see the first letters of Socialism written on the wall. If rejected, the Government would probably go to the country. He predicted the next Parliament would contain 300 Labourites.

THE LOST AND THE STRAYED.

CONSERVATIVE DEMONSTRATION (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) LONDON, July 27. Mr Stanley Baldwin, at a Unionist demonstration at Manchester, without naming Mr Churchill and other Liberals, said his object was to gather into the Unionist Party all who believed in the maintenance of the Constitution and liberty in giving the whole Empire an assurance that the Mother Country was resolved to do its duty by the Dominions.