FIRST RALLIES FOR GENERAL ELECTIONS

Manawatu Times, Issue 6848, 1 March 1929, Page 7

FIRST RALLIES FOR GENERAL ELECTIONS

BALDWIN ADDRESSES 35,000 LIBERAL POLICY WILL BE DRAMATIC. Australian Press Association. Received Thursday, 7.55 p.m. LONDON, Ceb. 27. Using the latest election engineering broadcasting device, by which Ms speech was heard in nine halls in various towns in Lancashire nnd Cheshire, with audiences totalling 35,000, Mr Baldwin addressed a meeting in the Free Tildes Hall, Manchester. ’ He lengthily traversed the Labour party’s politics and declared Nationalisation and Socialism was the very negation of the spirit of individual enterprise and would reduce the people to the level of marionettes, dancing to the dictation of officials —a dance of death, so far as national progress was concerned. ~ , He prided that despite black spots, we ffero finding more work every year and were regaining lost markets slowly but surely. We were making good the losses caused by the war. . _ Tho Liberal election campaign is being opened to-day. Mr. Lloyd George will address a great luncheon party at Connaught rooms, which will be attended by Peers and members of the House of Commons, candidates and their supporters. Nearly 500 candidates have already been adopted, most of whom will hear the leader announce the Liberal policy, which it is said, "will not only be dramatic bnt will profoundly affect the course of tho general election.”