ELECTION CAMPAIGN.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 248, 18 October 1924, Page 38 (Supplement)

ELECTION CAMPAIGN.

MINERS AND LABOUR. NATIONALISATION OF MINES. UNIONIST FOHCY. (By Cable. —Tress Association. —Copyright.) (Received 4 p.m.) LONDON, October 17. The Miners Federation has issued a manifesto calling on the mining district voters to unhesitatingly support the Labour candidates. It declares that the working classes can be proud of their own Government's record of achievement, and says if tho Labour party is returned to power it will as speedily as possible introduce a bill for the nationalisation of the mines. It asserts that mine workere and their families are suffering beyond description. Over one hundred thousand mine workers are idle and pits are closing every week, and wages still below the subsistence level. In a speech at Taunton, Mr. Stanley Baldwin said that if returned to power the Conservatives would see that the reform of marking foreign meats and foodstuffs, which was long overdue wae carried out. The Agricultural Wages Act would be maintaained. A powerful commission would immediately be formed to inquire into the causes in the rise in prices of food. While problems had not eventauted he would be prepared to confer with the whole agricultural industry. The Labourites national agent states that the party have over five hundred candidates, including twenty-one women. (Reuter).