BRITISH POLITICS.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1134, 15 March 1910, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

SPEECH BY MR KEIR HARDIE

L ABO UR/ S IS DEPENDENCE,

BY ELECTBIO TELEGRAPU—COPYRIGHT. PEK PKICSS ASSOCIATION. London, March 14. Mr Kior '"li.rdie, speaking at Swansea, said some arrangement was possible for allowing the Government to drag out a tolerated existence beyond June; but the Labour Party must not in the meanwhile be content simply to act ac a prop to the Government, and must be careful lest it be buried in its ruins. He added, with .reference to the threatened contest in Mid(ilainorgan, whore Mr Hartshorn, a Socialist, is in the Held, that, rather than hold seats uy the grace of Liberals or of the Tories, he preferred Labour to be without the House until it won them on ite own strength. (Received March 15, 10.5 a.m.) London, March 14. The naval estimates are expected to provide employment for 200,000 men for two years. Two thousand extra are to bo engaged at poplar in broadening and lengthening tlie clip for the 'accommodation of Dreadnoughts. Another 1000 will bo eugaged after April 1. In reply to Lord Hugh Cecil, Premier Asquith said that the Government could not give the 'undertaking but m'tended to pass the Budget before the spring recess. This intention was not contingent on anything that might happen elsewhere. Both parties in Canterbury offer to re-elect Mr Henniker Hea'ton unopposed if he will reconsider hie decision to retire.