LABOR'S TERMS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11175, 7 April 1930, Page 3

LABOR'S TERMS

FOR SUPPORT OF WARD MINISTRY. CLASS OF LEGISLATION DEMANDED. ■X - •* The conditions on which the Labor party will keep tlio'Government in office were stated by Mr. P. Fraser, M.P.p in a political address in Wellington. Mr. Fraser Said the political'si fcuaticm to-day was . most • uncertain,' ami anything might' happen when Parliament met next session Whether the' Reform party ' would support a no-confidence motion' moved by Mr. H. F. Holland was a matter, of conjecture. . „ , After denying that Mr. Holland and Mr... ML .L Savage had spoken with two different' voices in regard to .the attitude of Labor towards the Government, and criticising the Government lor not having given effect to its election' programme. Air. Eraser said:— -

“Parliament will meet' next June, and it the Government wm sav quite definitely that it- is prepared to deal with some of the important and pressing social) evils of the day, and bring down effective remedies . for those problems; if it agrees that Ihe relief conditions which break down awards and 'industrial agreements will he abolished on public works ; if. it promises that the much-need-ed and 'long-overdue Workers Cninpensation Act will he brought down; if it will agree that the Companies’ Act and the Family Allowances Act- should he improved and strengthened and made more beneficial to the petiole: and finally. if ’it agrees ! to abolish compulsory • military training, as it has indicated U ’ intends to do, then I for one would say if would he quite . sensible policy-on the par! of the Labor party to keep fiuGovernment in office so that it could give effect to those undertakings.” ■

Mr. Fraser said the Labor partv might have to.consider in the cours” of the session whether it was worth while keeping tire Government in office any longer. If Labor moved a vote of no-confidence, and the Reform members and a sufficient number of Independents supported it, it was quite possible Labor would he sent for to lonn a Government. Mr. tVnser cr \ o tm tisf-iiirtinct* tluit,or would not hesitate for a moment in such an event. At the same time, if the Government was prepared to bring down substantial legislation to relieve the masses of tin people, the Labor party would con sider living it the same measure o •support during the coming session as it had done last session.