ATTITUDE OF I.L.P.

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 48, 25 August 1931, Page 9

ATTITUDE OF I.L.P.

HENDERSON SUPPORTED

"PANIC LEGISLATION" (Received 25th August, 1.40 p.m.) LONDON, 24th August. Mr. E. F. Wise, Labour At.P. for East. Leicester, on behalf of the Independent Labour Parly, in. a statement declared

I the Labour Loft Wing followers would welcome Mr. Henderson's stand. They | believed that the world financial crisis was being used in an attempt to stampede the country into panic legislation grievously harmful to the workers, likely to increase unemployment, and powerless to prevent the present worldwide breakdown of trade. The Independent Labour Party would vigorously resist such legislation in the House of Commons. CABINET FORECAST CONTINENTAL COMMENT (Beceivcd 25th August, 1.30 pjn.) LONDON, 24th August. The "Daily Express's" diplomatic correspondent forecasts among the hew Cabinet Mr. Snowden, Chancellor; Mr. J. H. Thomas, Dominions Office; Lord Sankey, Lord Chancellor; Mr. Baldwin, Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons; Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Health; Sir Samuel Hoare, India; Lord Hailsham, President of the Council; Sir Herbert Samuel, Home Secretary ;Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Board of Trade. "Many important posts," he says, "will be filled by Ministers without Cabinet rank. For instance, Sir Austen Chamberlain will be Foreign. Secretary; Lord Percy, Minister of Education; and Sir William Jowitt, Attorney-General." European opinion is -unanimous that it is a makeshift Government. The "Morning Post's" Paris correspondent says that it is impossible to escape the impression in official quarters that the return of the Conservatives is an event most looked forward to. Labour's habit of treating France as the obstacle to all progress has. antagonised Frenchmen of almost every political colour. Comment from Germany shows a public realisation that the English crisis is intimately linked with the German crisis, England's difficulties having partly arisen from Germany's. The Press sees in Mr. Mac Donald's resignation a further evidence of the failure of Socialism to deal with Europe's economic crisis. In business circles the resignation is considered to foreshadow all-round wages eiits and increased British export competition, ONE WAY TO CONTRIBUTE (Received 25th August, II a.m.) LONDON, 24th August Mr. Somerset S. Brooke, Liberal candidate for the Gnildford by-election, necessitated by the death of Sir H, CBuckingham, announces Mb withdrawal, this being his contribution to- the success of the National Government. The figures at the General Election were: Sir H. Buckingham (C), 20,550; Mr. S. S. Brooke (L.), 1(5,984; Mr. L. M. Worshop (Lab.), 5996.