MR BALDWIN AS LEADER

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21290, 9 October 1934, Page 11

MR BALDWIN AS LEADER

I FIRM STAND AT PARTY ! CONFERENCE CLAIMS FOR GOVERNMENT 'BUITISH OPFIUII. WIitELESS.) (Received October 8. 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, October 6. The annua] Conservative Party Conference concluded at Bristol with a mass meeting, when Mr Stanley Baldwin delivered an address in which he reviewed the improvement in conditions in Great Britain since the present Government took office. He appealed to industries regularly working overtime to give employment to additional people by a reversion to normal hours. He suggested that it was a national duty to make such an effort. There were now 800,000 more people actually at work in Great Britain than when the present Government came into power. He cited official figures of the League of Nations which showed that comparing the first six months of the present year with the same period in 1928 the industrial output of Great Britain had actually increased 4 per cent., while there had been decreases in most other leading countries. Mr Baldwin reaffirmed his faith in the principles of the Conservative party, but said it was the duty and responsibility of a leader to "interpret those principles according to the needs of the times. He added, amid cheers: "I am at present the leader of this party. As long as I remain in that position 1 am going to lead it."