HUGE OBSTACLES
PUT IN LABOUR’S WAY. (United Press Association—By Electric Te'egraph—Copyright). LONDON. Get. 1. At the Labour Party’s Conference. Rt. Hon Air Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, in the course of his speech, said that when the Labour Government came into office, they found I ha f every available -fund had i.raided, and that every kind of Oranr'iiil differ” v had been placed in the wav of Air Phillip Snowdon’s benefi- hi| i:iUo , '-> s They also had to face"*,' ' s "d : ffi ulties due io tne crisis in the City. Ah Alexander said that as regards naval disarmament, it must not he thought that the present proposals constituted the British Government’s last words on the matter. Sir Oswald A Lesley said that the hank rate decision would inevitably increase Die difficulties of unemployment. Under present conditions, lie said, it was within the power of the Bank of England to put two men out of employment for every man that the Government put in employment. That was the situation that the Government had to face. Otherwise they would he confronted with a dilemma which must destroy them.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 October 1929, Page 6
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