A NATIONAL PROBLEM

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 124, 28 May 1930, Page 11

A NATIONAL PROBLEM

CO-OPERATION OF PARTIES

MACDONALD'S APPEAL

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LONDON, 27th May.

Two noteworthy references to unemployment wore made fc in speeches delivered last night.

Mr. Eam«ay Mac Donald, addressing the constituents of Seaham harbour, said that the unemployment problem had changed since the General Election. It would not then have been fair to ask the other parties to co-operato with Labour. The Government , had its policy. The Tories had theirs, and they could not be united. Circumstances were now changing on the national aspects of unemployment, and the Government would now welcome any amount of co-operation. Mr. Lloyd George, the Liberal Leader,' speakyig at Nottingham, said ho would be surprised if the unemployment figures stopped before they reached two million. Therefore it was essential for all men of goodwill to devote themselves to ending the evil, which was eating the vitals of the nation. The Liberals had put forward a policy, but renounced all right to it in order to let Labour take it and act upon it.

These speeches gain further significance from the fact that Mr. Mac Donald assumed the chairmanship of the Cabinet- Committee on Unemployment on the eve of- the adjourned debate'on Mr. J. H. Thomas's salary on Wednesday.