BRITISH POLITICS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18016, 7 March 1924, Page 9

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE WESTMINSTER SEAT. A LABOUR CANDIDATE. (UTRUU4* um *.* UIU iiSOCUTJW.) (Received March 6th, 9.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 0. The Westminster Labour Party has decided to run a candidate for the Abbey Division in opposition to Mr Churchill. The choice will be made to-day. Probably it will fall on Mr Fenner Brookway, secretary of the Independent Labour Party. FEWER SCBOOL CHILDREN.

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LONDON, March 6

The Board of Education points out that though the new Estimates are practically the same as last year's, the Board is likely to have from £500,000 to £750,000 for Mr Trevelyan's reforms. This is largely owing to the fewer children in the elementary schools, due to the falling birth-rate. ECONOMIC COMMITTEE. (wwmuin un *.s. euu uaoexunov) PERTH, March 6. Mr Bruce, speaking at a civic reception, paid that in a wireless eonyoujji-. cation that be received during;- th* voyage it was that the British Government was opposing the appointment of a permanent Economic Com* mittee. , ■

He could hardly credit web ft its** ment as he had discussed the nuttei' , with members of the present BriiWi Government and understood they wero \ sympathetic towards it. ■■ In any case, they had Mr MecDonald'e promise that all the resolution* of » the Economic Conference would be sub- i ' mitted to Parliament ' for unfettered consideration, and Mr Bruce said he ' was confident the promiae would b»> \ kept. THE MINIMUM WAGE i - LONDON, Marcher In the House of . Common*, Mr Shaw (Minister of Llbour) Mcepto©} the , principle underlying the motion by Mr. J. Compton (Labour), calling on too Government to proceed, without deity, < with the BUI introduced by tbo Government of the day in 1919 for the constitution of a Commission to enquire into the question of the legal minimum rates of wages. At the same time, the Minister *»id, the Government's approval of the motion must be tempered by the facts of the situation. Mr Frank Hodges Mid that trouble. - was looming in the coal industry) due to the miners' demand for a subsistence wag*. The motion was agreed toA MEMBER UNSEATED. ("Aaous.") LONDON, March 5. ' Major the Hon. J. J. Astor (Conservative M.P. for Dover) has bees unseated because he voted before taking the oath.

NOT ANTI-CONSERVATIVE,

ME CHURCHILL'S POSITION

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LONDON, March 5. Mr Winston Churchill stated thftt his candidature for the Westminster Abbey seat was >n nowise hostile to the Conservative Party. On the contrary, he recognised that the party has now become the main rallying ground for opponents of the Socialiiit Party.

The Conservative leaders, in the last Speech from the Throne, announced « broad, progressive social policy, which might as well have served as a Liberal Government's programme, says Mr Churchill. Moreover, Mr Baldwin hittf made it clear that he accepted the verdict of the election on the tariff question, and consequently appealed/ xpjr ~ Liberal support. The v ;;„ must win a large measure*of LibenjJ k\ x support if there were to.ho.'effwtw* ,<S resistance in the big straggle that ]jfyf coming Boon, .. ~ W% Mr Otho the Cto W I oandidate, write what that-Mr Churchill I Labour Party within'a year. *''