BRITISH ELECTIONS

Grey River Argus, 13 May 1929, Page 5

BRITISH ELECTIONS

TORY CAMPAIGN An “Anti-Sosh” Cry. (United Service). (Australian & N.Z. Cable A.. sn.) LONDON, May 10. ‘ Mr Stanley Baldwin inaugu: ated the Unionist Party’s campaign by addressing an audience of ten thousand at the Albert Hall. He said that a great fight was beginning, and it was on the anniversary of the General Strike, which Mr Ramsay MacDonald now disowned, but he forgot that it was the direct logical outcome of Labour’s propaganda of violence. Those v.-To preached there doctrines sowed the Wind, but the na ion reaped the whirlwind. They challenged law and order. The Government of the eouniry thus' headed straight for anarchy and despotism but the overwhelming mass of the British people stood behind the present Government, whose policy for the past two years had been | so successful that even the Socialist leaders now preached the doctrine of moderation, but behind them there still stood people who believed -in revolutionary methods.

Mr Baldwin said he did not fear the Liberate, because the brains, money, s.nd dynamic forces of their Lender were of no avail unless sonl and fire could be brea hed into Liberalism’s dry bones.

Mr Baldwin enumerated steps that his Government had taken in the direction of social reform and of increasing employment. They were prepared, he said, to put their "hands to the plough again with the same energy. Illustrating the nation’s recovery since 1924. •he Premier said wholesale prices' had fallen over fifteen points, and the cost of living eighteen points, declaring the real value of wages had therefore risen. He said the savings of small investors had increased by £170,000, 000. He said shipbuilding was improving, and that the iron and steel t ■ ade was better even than the coal trade, which wa« showing considerable improvemen 1 , as more men Were working and more coal was being produced. INCREASED DUTIES URGED. MR BALDWIN’S PAMPHLET. (Australian & N Z. n-We Assn A LONDON. May 11. Tn an elect’on address, which he has issued in pamphlet form, Mr Baldwin ftres es that, among the means of assisting the Dominions, there is the cooperation and expansion of the value of imperial preference, which, since 1024 ho says, has been stabilised and extended with excellent results. The Umpire to-day wa s far their best mar--I;e‘. buying nearly as much manufactures es .all of the foreign countric together He continues: “Our Liberal and Socia’ist opponents, by their actions in 1924, and their declarations sincehave' shown .a determined hostility to ‘l,O whole idea of preference. We, on the contrary. have demonstrated its g-eat possibilities'. and, subject tn my pledge not to impose any protective taxation on food, wo shall continue o p omote it n-s an es ential part of our policy of imperial development. Political Pyjamas I THE TORY RESOURCE. (Sun Cabl). LONDON, May 10. Mr Ramsay MacDonald, speaking at Seaham,i said: “If the present Government is returned to Downing Street, it will cot straightway into its political pyjamas ,and say there for the next five years. ”

DISSOLUTION.

Of British Parliament. THE SPEECH FROM THE THRONE (Australian Sc N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDN, May 11. The speech from the throne at th?, dissolution of Parliament reiers to the ratification of the Kellogg Pact It mentions the Duke of Gloucester’s mission to Japan being a pledge of friendship, uniting the two countries in a deto.minn.tion to co-operate in. a peaceful, settlement of international questions. It expresses the hope that internal peace will soon be restored in Afghanistan. It says a new hope for an early achievement of further naval disarmament is held out by Mr Gibson’s (U.S.A.) speech at Geneva. The speech prays that success will crown the labours regarding India of the Samoa Commission.

The speech announces rnat the pursuance of Imperial Conference reeoni’■.nondations in 19,26, Arrangements have been made for a meeting in London in October of an expert committee on the overation dominion legislation, also a sub-conference as to merchant shipping legislation. The speech says that the unemploy merit continues to cause anxiety, bvr that a substantial improvement has occurred now, and that there • arc good grounds for a. belief that -“we are moving towards a higher level ef employment throughout the country.” It adds that the derating scheme and a re-or.ganisation of local government promise widespread benefits, particularly for basic trades. BY THE KING. (Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 10. The dissolution of Parliament took place at Bognor. The King met the members of the Privy Council on the lawn at Craigwell House. His Majesty, who looked particularly well, sat at the head of the table. The act of dissolving Parliament occupied only a few minutes. Tt concluded immediately the King signed the document. Sir Maurice Hanker, Clerk of the Privy Council, had a hurried lunch, and then drove hack to London at full speed to hand, the proclamation to the Lord Chancellor to-day. The Privy Council is the first that the King has held since Saturday, December 4th, When, with his Ministers standing in the doorway of his bedroom at Buckingham Palace, he signed the document setting up the Council of State to act for him during his illness.