ATTACK ON NATIONAL GOVERNMENT

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 21020, 23 November 1933, Page 11

ATTACK ON NATIONAL GOVERNMENT

♦ LORD LLOYD'S SPEECH INCREASE IN UNEMPLOYMENT ALLEGED (Received November 22, 8.43 p.m.) LONDON, November 21. Lord Lloyd, who was guest of honour at a dinner at the .Savoy Hotel, criticised the Government for its failure to cope with unemployment. Permanent unemployment had increased by 60,000 since June, he said. The much-advertised total decrease in the unemployment figures was due to the inclusion of 237,000 men who were merely on short time. Mr Ramsay Mac Donald forgot to explain this in his speech at the Guildhall dinner. One million were receiving public assistance, in addition to 2,040,000 unemployed. Lord Lloyd declaied. Great Britain must realise that her export trade was becoming an insecure basis of prosperity. She could produce her entire bacon poultry, dairy produce, beef, and mutton requirements withm 1U years. The navy and mercantile marine should buy coal, increasing employment and lessening Britain's dependence on foreign fuels. Lord Lloyd declared that the Government should abandon the undignified role of uninvited and unheeded adviser of Europe. Lord Lloyd said that a new danger was that Great Britain, for the first time, was exposed to a hostile and rebellious Ireland on her flank. It was about time the National Government made a stand against Mr de Valera. If it were to be a tariff war, the National Government should make it a real, not a sham war.