HOMELAND BY-ELECTIONS

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 November 1930, Page 5

HOMELAND BY-ELECTIONS

LABOUR DISSENSIONS. [BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, November 22. “Wo mean to win the East. Renfrew seat, despite the Government,” said the vanguard of the Left Wing Labourites on their arrival at Glasgow. It is expetced that twenty Labour members of tho House of Commons, headed by Sir Oswald Mosley, will conduct a campaign for the Labourite during the next week, leaving the Government with a trifling majority over the Conservatives in the House. Mr. Maxton,' a Left Winger, declares that the Labour Party is not so much attacking Mr, Irwin, the I.L.P. candidate for East Renfrew, as the Left Wingers and their working class policy. WHITECHAPEL AND PALESTINE. LONDON, November 22. Another interesting by-election is progressing at Whitechapel, due to the death of Mr. Harry Gosling (Labour). There is a huge Jewish vote .here, and the. question of the British Government’s policy in Palestine is uppermost. ■ Lord .uelchett, in a message to the Whitechapel Jews, states that, this is now their opportunity to strike a blow at the Government.

EX-GOVERNOR’S PROTEST. LONDON, November 23. Sir Archibald Weigall announces that the burden of income tax and supertax compels him to close his country residence at Petwood, thereby depriving the local authority of the rates and taxes. He adds: “It is vindicative confiscation, absorbing three-fifths of my income. The Government, as a. mean?, of bribing the electorate, is fallaciously trying to enrich the poor by impoverishing the rich.”