PARTY CONTROL

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 57, 5 September 1934, Page 4

PARTY CONTROL

WHAT OF LAEOUR?

MR. JULL'S HINT

A hint that if the Labour Tally came into power it would be dominated from ■outside was dropped by Mr. A, E. .hill (Government, Wai paw;;) during the course of his speech on the Uudget debate in the House of KcpreKentalives vVstcTday.

Jlr. .lull ssiii'l that (he Lender of the Oji[ioHition luid taken ;i gloomy view of llhu J.imlget. 110 could be likened to Ihe Gloomy Dc;iii. One would have j llioiifjlit that ho would lmvi! luul llie nioro cheerful outlook —there were shadows in (lie valleys and sunshine mi the hills, anil all tliat sort of tiling. The Hurt{,'<•• t had been the briglile.st for years, and next year it would lie 'brighter still. Jlc (liougli.t that the old age pensioners could have been placed on the same mark as the civil servants. Jf tho increases in their pensions had been made retrospective to April 1, the cost would have been only about £34,000. lie hoped that there would be no disparity in the costs of pay between tlic unemployed in the town1 and those in the country. He could not see any advantage in the setting up of a mortgage corporation which would handle the mortgages of the country, including those in the hands of the State Departments.

Members of the Labour Party had talked about the domination of Ministers, but if the Labour Party came into power it would not be compared with the domination of Comrade Roberts and Comrade Cook. Those persons would exercise greater powers than-those who represented thorn in Parliament.