NO PACT!

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11383, 8 December 1930, Page 5

NO PACT!

BRITISH LIBERALS AND

LABOR

MR LLOYD GEORGE MAKES POSITION CLEAR.

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Dec. 5,

In view of recent rumors that the Liberal Party had agreed, conditionally, to support the Government, a speech by Mr. Lloyd George to Liberal .candidates to-day was awaited with interest. He said there was no pact- to announce. He was there 'to expound his policy. He criticised (he Labor Government, but said an election might mean a Conservative victory involving. -'' protection., for a generation- Therefore, the Government should be defeated onlv on an issue vital to the nation. The Government would need Liberal' goodwill and help, and urgent -problems must be tackled and electoral reform carried: through;. t ': ■ Questioned later,-Mr. Lloyd George repented that there was no pact- and no deal. ' ’ ' Picturing Liberalism as saving the count rv from “degradation of the most selfish and sordid aspect, of nationalism. represented by the hagg-r ling, grasping claws of tariffs', with the”chariot of patriotism harnessed to greed,” Mr. Lloyd George announced his intention of keeping- Mr. MacDonald in power, after a. slashing attack on the Government.

A NATION-WIDE CRISES. SECTION OF LABOIiITES ISSUE MANIFESTO.

rr v>. Ai by Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Dec. 7, 5 p.m.) , LONDON. Dec. 6.

Mr. A'.-'.T. Cook, Sir O. -Mosley', Mr Oliver Baldwin and fifteen other Labor members' have issued a manifesto, urging action to avert a nation-wide-crisis. .Tliev urge the vesting of wider powers, in the Government, creating ,an emergency -Cabinet of five Ministers without .portfolios to execute a policy of creating «ir new balance.between.-agricultural and industrial production; organising markets and controlling imports ; sheltering; workers from .sweating and. dum-ping;-fluctuations of prices, ensuring efficiency and a .protective tariff, the concluding- ;of - .-Imperial and foreign trading agreements; reducing taxation • instituting, slum clearance: anct re-Koiising and using unemployed therein. ~ ■■■ , ~ The Daily Herald s lobby correa- - pondent commenting on’ Air, Lloyd George, says: “It is difficult to -see how Labor can remain in .office . another two years oil such an . (in suby stantial basis as tho likelihood of the continuance of day bv day support from: Liberals, with the possibility of a clash at any time. 7 ’ . -