LABOUR GOVERNMENT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 928, 29 January 1924, Page 5

LABOUR GOVERNMENT.

SCHEMES FOR THE FUTURE. UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM. By Electrio Telegraph. -I Copyright. Received January 29, 9.45 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 28. Mr Varley, a Labour member of the House of Commons, in a spGGOn to 1118 constituents, said that the Labour Government had drafted schemes dealing with unemployment and it was determined that money should not stand in the way. The remedy of the housing question would be tackled regardless ol cost. The money must be found somehow. . The Government intended to make an immediate inquiry into finance, including all forms of taxation, and also inquiring into the cost of the production of all necessaries of. life. The Government would tell the other parties that they could take snap votes and play monkey tricks in the House of Commons, but Labour would not resign. If beaten on a no-connd-enc-e motion it would resign and would tell the country why it was beaten.Sydney Sun cable. GREETINGS FROM CHINA. DR. SUN YAT SEN’S MESSAGE. Received January 29, 9.10 a.m. PEKIN. Jan. 28. Dr. Sun Yat Sen has cabled to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the British Premier, fraternal greetings and hailing the Labour Party’s accession to power as marking a new era, not only in English history, but in the secular affairs of the nations. , Dr. Sun Yat Sen looks to Mr MacDonald to deal with China, not as if she were still a conquered nation ol the days of the opium wars and the Boxer outbreak, but as the home of people whose civilising work in Asia entitles them to at least the same treatment as is now accorded the nations whose, sovereignty has been freed from the pre-war. fetters. —Reuter. GLASGOW DEMONSTRATIONS. PLEASED WITH CABINET. Received January 29, 9.45 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 28. There were various demonstrations in Glasgow on Saturday in celebration of the Labour Government. Mr. Maxton, a member of the House of Commons, told tha meeting that Glasgow was particularly pleased that three of the 10 Glasgow men in the House of Commons were members of the Cabinet. The seven outsiders would see that the three insiders did their duty properly. He lmd had the honour of entertaining at tea —r Wheatley, Minister of Health, and Mr Stewart, Under-Secretary of Health for Scotland. Having no servants and his sisters being away, he had to ask the Rev. Stephen, a member of the House of Commons, to wash the dishes of the previous meal so that Messrs Wheatley and Stewart could have clean cups. “After waiting hand and foot on these great dignities, the Rev. Stephen and myself impressed on them that if they did not deliver the goods in their respective departments their lives wouiu not be cast in pleasant places.”—Sydney Sun cuble.

CAPITAL LEVY DROPPED. STATEMENT BY PREMIER. LONDON, Jan. 28. The political editor of Collier’s Weekly, prior to embarking for New York, said that Mr MacDonald, in an interview, had stated that he neither hoped nor intended to try to introduce a cupital levy as the time was inopportune. Mr Warley, Labour M.P., while speaking at Mansfield, said it was claimed that the country would reject the capital levy, but the money must come from somewhere. The Government, therefore, proposed an inquiry, embracing all forms of taxation, also an inquiry into the costs of the production of every necessary commodity. —A. and N.Z. cable. BIG HOUSING SCHEME.

LONDON, Jan. 27. In a speech at Glasgow, the MinisLansbury intimated that Mr MacDonald had offered him a Ministerial post, but as it was outside tho Cabinet lie decided that it was not worth sacrificing his independence. ISn a speech at Glasgow, the Minister of Health, Mr Wheatley, strongly denounced housing conditions. He did not reveal his plans, beyond suggesting that the country’s credit must be used to bring the unemployed into touch with building materials. lie declared that the Government’s demands for housing would vastly exceed the demands of the late Government. He was not at all nervous, if tho British people would support him in a reasonable scheme, tliat he would put the problem on the way to solution. A. and N.Z. cable.