CONSERVATIVE PARTY

Evening Star, Issue 21845, 8 October 1934, Page 9

CONSERVATIVE PARTY

MR BALDWIN ADDRESSES CONFERENCE DUTIES OF LEADERSHIP STATED (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright, KUO BY, October 6. (Received October 8, at noon.) The annual Conservative Conference concluded at Bristol with a. mass meeting, when Mr Baldwin delivered an eddress, in which he reviewed the improvement in the conditions in Britain which had been achieved since the present Government took office. -He appealed to industries regularly working overtime to give employment; to additional people by a reversion to normal hours. He suggested that it was a national duty to make .such an effort. He said there were now 800,000 more people actually at work in Britain than when the present Government came into power. Ho cited the official figures of the League of Nations, which showed that, comparing the first six months of the present year with the same period in 1928, the industrial output of Britain had actuall yincreasod by 4 per cent., while there had been decreases in most of. the other leading countries^ Mr Baldwin reaffirmed his faith in the principles of the Conservative Party, but said it was the duty and responsibility of the leader to interpret those principles according to the needs of the times. He added, amid cheers; “ 1 am at present leader of this party, and so long as I remain in that position 1 am going to lead it.”