PARAMOUNT ISSUE

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 96, 20 October 1924, Page 7

PARAMOUNT ISSUE

LABOUR OR ANTI-LABOUR?

LONDON, 18th October

Britain has now enjoyed a week's electioneering, in which tho issue has practically narrowed down to : "Are, you in favour of Labour, or not?" Cynical labourites say that when the .Cont eervatives and. the Liberals do agree their unanimity is wonderful. It is att undoubted fact that most of ' their speeches are so similar that newspaper readers would not know whether they wore reading Liberal or Conservative views if tlioy did not look to see tho ]iame of the speaker. Liberal speakers refrain'-from attacking the Conservative party, while the Conservatives have never a. word to say against the Liberals, but rather-welcome them as long lost brothers. ; LIBERAL UNEASINESS. . Some Liberals, however, are uneasy at this sudderimanifestation of affection. For instance, Mr. Asquith, replying to a heckler last night, said: "1 am not giving support t 0 tho Conuervativq Party. lam standing here as a Liberal.'^ The respective leader writers are. similarly chastened towards each other, and reservo their weapons for : the Labourites only. \ Vhe language on both sides, which has been bitter from the start, is becoming -bitterer. The "You're another" stage will probably bo reached noxt week. Conservative headquarters have already issued 65 tons of printed matter throughout the country. The posters and cartoons deal mostly with the Bolsheviks and the unemployed. BETTER RUSSIA THAN DOLES. Mr\ U? yd, Geol 'S e > at Llanfairfechan, Ba,l- , -.m- ■ nover seou an election in which Ministers had so completely lost their tempers. Mr Bernard Shaw, speaking at Northampton, said it was better to lend Russia thirty millions than to throw it away on demoralising doles. H e condemned the strong language used by Mr Churchill, as calculated to have a bad ptLTthl USw^ndtOondan^: th°