BRITISH POLITICS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXVIII, 21 June 1912, Page 8

BRITISH POLITICS.

ATTACK ON THE GOVERNMENT

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATIOTS'-KIOPYRIGHT.

(Received June 21, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 20

Mr Austin Chamberlain, speaking at Sheffield, said the unprecedented labor unrest required the Government's and Parliament's attention, and not the destruction of ..the ancient Constitution, the plunder of a venerable Church, and the jerrymandering of the constituencies in the interests of a faction. The unrest was due to the Ministers striving by every artifice and terminological inexactitude to set class against class. The Budget campaign had sowed the seeds of the trouble, and other causes were the increased cost of the necessaries of life, and the workers' legitimate desire to raise his standard of life. This was not acbieveable by arguing tliat capital was Labor's enemy. Mr Chamberlain concluded by blaming the Government for turning a deaf ear to the offers of the dominions for Imperial preference, and slamming the door in the face of their kinsmen.