EFFECT OF ELECTION

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 138, 13 June 1931, Page 13

EFFECT OF ELECTION

FIVE YEARS OF TORY RULE. • ■■ ■ ' .■'■—•■-■ -■■";■■ . • LLOYD GEORGE AVERSE j LONDON, 12th: Jum. « Despite Mr., Lloyd George's ishaJleH^ which is featured in the newspapers, there are suggestions in several qwarters that there will be many. Liberal and Labour conferences during , th« week-end in an attempt to find a out of the deadlock. Commentators agree that neithes ths Liberals nor the Government desires '■&' ' early election upon' the taxation i question, "which does not operate until 1933. A meeting of the Liberal 'memb*i» of the House of Commons spent Wtveial hours on Thursday discussing pq.ssibls modifications of the amendment fto the Government's land tax proposals, but the final wording is not being adopted until a full party meeting on Monday. Both the Liberal and the .'Labour Press direct attention to Mr. , Lloyd George's declaration in air article in * Scottish Labour paper this w.e^iu-— "An election now might meaa another five years of Tory rtile with, reaction reigning at home arid,: abroad, which would be a, calamity." The "Daily Herald," in an says the Government cannot and ,will not accept any amendment V^o^ reduce the expected land tsa; revenua of £5,000,000 by more thaa half, and nullify all the provisions for the valuation* of improved, built-on laiid, aiming at a future rating of future ls.nd values. The newspaper suggests that th« ■ Liberals will not dare force, -am election in which they will enter t'fce campaigm with the odium of javirig' destroyed the land tax. - ■■■ -,