PARTY POLICIES FULLY STATER BY THREE LEADERS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6919, 27 May 1929, Page 7

PARTY POLICIES FULLY STATER BY THREE LEADERS

Three Days Before Poll TRANQUILLITY THAT MAY SPELL APATHY CHURCHILL’S FEARS. i United Press Association—By Llectru Telegraph—Copyright. Received Monday I a.m. LONDON, May 2G. With only three week days before polling day, interest in the general election has quickened. Never before lravo tho policies of the respective parties been made known so thoroughly throughout the country. Messrs Baldwin, Lloyd George and Ramsay MacDonald have , travelled thousands of miles, making speeches. Each.has also broadcasted his party’s policy, whilo as a new feature of this election, each has written lengthy articles in widely circulating journals. The election campaign has proceeded according to plan. No surprises have been sprung since Mr Lloyd George’s unemployment speech on March 1. Mr Baldwin’s Drury Lane speech on April 18 remains a complete statement of the Conservative policy, and Mr MacDonald’s article in the Daily Herald (cabled May 21) is a fair exposition of the Labour viewpoint. Little remains to be added. Mr Lloyd George’s election address is belated. It was generally assumed he had kept it back in order to enable him to embody a phrase about a Liberal revival, but not to be outdone, Mr MacDonald, in a letter to Labour candidates, says tho issuo is perfectly clear: "Is Tory rule to continue, or not? The workers know what that incans. Tho results aro proclaimed from the hoarding ‘a million of your fellow eountryment are in need of food and clothing.’ ” (This is one of the posters issued during the appeal for the miners.) Mr MacDonald added “The workers know that the only way to end the rule of the Tories is to put a Labour government in power. Work as never before and victory shall be ours.” Mr Winston Churchill, whilo speaking at Wanstead, said ho scorned making a promise without being sure tho money was available, but it might bo possible to extend the pensions scheme to peoplo not classed as wage earners. He added it would be hard if the tranquillity produced by the government’s stable policy should become apathy, which would permit of a government defeat.