TO PROVIDE WORK

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 110, 3 February 1931, Page 9

TO PROVIDE WORK

British Schemes Must Be Extended

CO-OPERATION URGED

Brithh wirde«». Rugby, January 8L The President of the Board of Trade, Mr. William Graham, in a speech at Stirling last night, expressed agreement with the Liberal Party’s contention that existing development schemes for stimulating employment must be accelerated and extended.

Except as to the method of financing national schemes, there was probably no real difference of opinion between the Labour and the Liberal resolution which the Liberal leaders had tabled in the House of Commons.

The Liberals suggested a large national reconstruction loan. The Government said that the schemes must be approved In advance. Proceeding, he said that the leading industries required a drastic reconstruction, and in view of the gravity of th» industrial situation old party divisions became meaningless. No one now proposed a form of socialism Involving central management from the seat of Government. He was convinced that the trust concentration now taking place must shade into a public co-operation. He did not believe that the economic change was taking that possibility out of its hands. Its true course lay in a determined effort to build up a system of public cooperation, especially in the great monopolies or quasi-monopolies in industry. GOVERNMENT SAFE Prime Minister’s Opinion AIMS OF CONSERVATIVES British Wireless. Rugby, January 31. Referring to the, political situation in a speech at Watford last night, the Prime Minister, Mr. MacDonald, declared that the Government would not go out of office until defeated on what amounted to a vote of censure.

The, Conservative Party was trying to effect a combination with Liberals to turn the Government out, but they could not draft a vote of censure on unemployment which would enable them to take the Liberals with them. He predicted that the Conservatives would be unable to force an election 'during the current year.