CAUTIOUS LABOUR POLICY.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19690, 6 August 1929, Page 9

CAUTIOUS LABOUR POLICY.

ME MAXTON'S ATTACK.

promises unfulfilled.

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{ltoceived August sth, 7 p.m.)

LONDON, August 5. "I can think of nobody who has benefited by the Labour Government but two reprieved murderers," said Mr J Maxton, member of the House of Commons, at the Independent Labour Party'* conference •'] mako the charge against the Socialists generally that thev sue adding their voice to tlio multitude, declaring that it in mi practicable to do things in which they believe.

I and other members of the House of Commons representing the industrial divisions are ashamed to face our constituent* because Labour's promises are not fulfilled.

"It I had been Prime Minister I would have seen that the unemployed had an adequate allowance I would have admitted Trotsky to Britain. I would have recognised Russia immediately, I would have re-established the housing subsidy, and I would have raised the school age, so assisting the unemployed. '"The Times'" Cables. [Mr Maxton is churman of the I L P ami leader of the Left Wing of the I-abonr Party, his slogan being one of "Socialism in our time." He nas con timiallv led revolt* against the policies of Mr Mac Donald's Party as being insufficiently drastic in character.]

SOVIET'S PROTEST. DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST MR MACDONALI). (Received August sth, 8.15 p.m.) LONDON. August 5. The Riga correspondent of "The Times" states that the Bolshevik authorities are staging throughout Russia demonstrations and protests against the "new rupture of AngloSoviet relations by a pseudo-Labour Government." Factories and other establishments in Moscow, Leningrad. Kharkov, and Artemovsk organised and passed identical resolutions affirming their determination to give Mr MacDonald's manoeuvres the sameresponse as was given to Sir Austen Chamberlain's. The resolutions concluded with the words; "Down with MacDonaldl" —"The Times" Cables.