OSCULATORY LABOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 112, 13 May 1924, Page 5

OSCULATORY LABOUR.

BOLSHEVIKS EMBRACED FIRST LONDON, May 6. JjotA Curzon, presiding at a. Primrose League demonstration at the Albert Hall, declared that the only thinjf Labour had done in foreign affaire was to eit in friendly.conference with representatives of the cruellist and bloodiest Government Europe has seen since the French revolution. Labour professed to be eager to embrace everybody in friendship, but "osculation on paper" was very unsatisfactory. He would like to hear the banns proposed, and sec the parties standing at the altar. Mr. .Baldwin, the, former Prime Minister, said that he was apprehensive regarding Labour's failure' to accept modest preference proposals. If Britain was reluctant to make the smallest sacrifices the Dominions would look elsewhere, and would be attracted to other economic orbits. - This would irretrievably damage British industries, and possibly make the preservation of unity more difficult. Labour bad rejected the outstretched hand of its own kith and kin in order, to grasp the hands of strangers from Moscow. Empire unity was not essential for glory, boasting, or. painting the map red, but for the nation's life. The Conservatives would not propose a general tariff in the future. Their policywould be to assist Industries suffering from unfair foreign competition. '