PALLIATIVES FOR UNEMPLOYMENT.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 December 1929, Page 7

PALLIATIVES FOR UNEMPLOYMENT.

Experts to Confer With Prime Minister. Advisory Committee May be Set Up. Received Monday, 9.40 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 2. The Daily Chronicle says a party of economists and leaders of industry will lunch with Mr. Ramsay MacDbnald at Downing Street to-day and will discuss- palliatives for unemployment. There is growing anxiety and even alarm, on the part of -the" Government at the. ever-mounting unemployment figures and the apparent failure of Mr. J.. H. Thomas's policy. 5-ome Ministers desire outside help to be called in and Mr. Tbot'iuis has already been in consultation with industrialists. Mr. MacDonald is now .taking a hand and apparently has in mind the establishment of an Advisory Committee of Industry, similar to the Cabinet Committee of Civil Research, which Mr.. Baldwin set up. Since June 17, unemployment has risen from 1,122,713 tc to IX-73.500 and is likely to be over 1,300,000 by January. If filings drift much longer, the Government will find public opinion'difficult to control. Straight Speaking by Rebel Scottish M.'sP. "VOICING TOO STRONGLY CRYING NEEDS OF PEOPLE." Received Monday, 9.20 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 2. ■■' For some days there have been rumours of trouble between the official Labourites and five rebel Clydeside members of the Commons ..The matter-was discussed at a Labour demonstration at -Glasgow on Sunday evening, which Mr. Maxton and other members concerned attended. ■•'■'.■ Mr. Maxton's speech showed that the rumours were trust worthy. He said the crime the Clydesiders were committing was voicing too strongly the crying needs of the people. "We have refrained from speaking with freedom thus far out of loyalty to the Government, but the position will be humorous if Wheatley, Maxton, Kirkwood, Stephen and Buchanan are expelled by the votes of Lord Parmoor and Commander Kenworthy." Mr. Maxton added he had been asked by the leaders of the party not only to stop further talk of this description but to Offer a public apology on behalf of the Clydeside group . "ff ! I have to rnaKe choice between supporting Cabinet and the unemployed,-1 am standing by the unemployed," he concluded. A meeting at Dumbarton, which Mr. Kirkwood attended, unanimously passed a vote of confidence in him, despite a letter from the National Labour Party, complaining of a speech made by Mr. Kirkwood on November 16. Communist Congress Denounces Labour • CONCILIATION DEPLORED Times Cable. Received Monday, 9.40 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 2. The congress of Communists of Great Britain, consisting of fewer than 160 men and women, mostly under 30, assembled At Leeds and listened to long speeches denouncing Mr. MacDonald and his colleagues as social Fascists and allies of the capitalists, who were beating down British workers. Mr. Harry Pollitt declared the fight against organised trade unionism required ruthless expulsion from the Communist Party. Conciliatory sections were criticised" for lack of revolutionary propaganda in Communist speeches and literature. The international was most dissatisfied with the character of Communist leadership in Britain.