LABOUR REGIME

Northern Advocate, 12 June 1929, Page 5

LABOUR REGIME

MACDONALD MINISTRY

JUNIOR PERSONNEL.

MISS LAWRENCE INCLUDED.

(British Official Wireless.) (Received 12.45 p.m.) RUGBY, Juno 11. Ministerial ap

The list of junior pointmonts is issued this evening. Dr. Dalton becomes Parliamentary Under-Secretary of the Foreign Office. Apart from being a keen student of foreign policies, he has considerable reputation as an economist, Mr Arthur Ponsonby is appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary for t'he Dominions. He was Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the Labour Government of 1924. Mr William Lunn becomes Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Colonies. He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Department of Overseas Trade in the-Labour Administration of .1924. Mr Ben Turner becomes Parliamentary Secretary of the Mines Department of the Board of Trade. Tho

Ministry of Mines was abolished as a

separate entity by the late Conservative Government., matters appertaining to mines reverting to the Board of Trade, Considerable importance, however, is .attached by the new Labour Government to mines, and in entrusting the Secretaryship for Mines to Mr Turner, Mr MacDonald has chosen one of the most able Trade Union leaders. Mr Turner is General President of the National Union of Textile Workers, and ns chairman of the General Council of the Trade Union Congress has played a leading part in conferences with employers, headed by Lord Molchett, for peace in industry.

Air C. G, Ammon has received the post of Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty which he held in the last Labour Administration.

Air George Hall becomes a Civil Lord of the Admiralty.

Dr. Addison, it is stated, has consented to fill the post of Under-Seere-tary to the Alinistry of Agriculture, at the special and urgent request of the Prime Minister, in order that lie may participate in promoting various agricultural schemes of the Government, in the preparation of which he has played a, very active part. Dr. Addison is by profession a physician and surgeon. He was a Liberal member of Parliament from 1910 to 192,2. He was Alinister of Munitions and afterwards Minister in Charge of Reconstruction during the war. He was the first Minister of Health in Mr Lloyd George's Government in 19.19—’1921. He left the Liberal Party and was elected for Swindon as a Labourite at the recent

general election, Aliss Susan Lawrence becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Alinistry of Health, She has been an active member of the London County Council and the Poplar Borough Council.

Dr, Drummond Shiels becomes Parliamentary Under-Secretary for India. He is specially interested in dominion and colonial conditions. He was a member of the special commission cn the Ceylon constitution. Lord Russell receives office for the first time as Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Transport.

Mr F. W, Pcfhick-Lawronce becomes Financial Secretary to the Treasury. He is an authority on financial matters. He was one of the most ardent supporters of the Suffragettes in their militant campaign for the vote just before the war. Lord Do La Warr becomes Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the War Office, and Mr E. Bh in well Financial Secretary. The latter was Minister of Mines in the last Labour Government. Other new TJudor-Secretarics are: — Mr F. Montague.—Air Ministry. ’ Mr W. E. Smith.—(Board of Trade. Mr Morgan Jones, —Board of Education. Mr Alfred Short.™ Home Office. Mi- J. J. Lawson.“ Ministry of Labour. RELATIONS WITH AMERICA. PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT. (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.)

(Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, June 11

General Dawes, the newly appointed United States Ambassador to Britain, is due to arrive in London tomorrow, and it is reported that he will extend an invitation from President Hoover to Mr Pam say MacDonald to visit, the Unitedl States in the autumn.

It is known that Mr Baldwin, had he continued in Office as Prime Min*ister, intended to pay a personal visit to the President of the Hinted States this year, and it is considered likely that Mr MacDonald may decide to make the journey. If the projections are carried! out the Prime Minister will probably go to the United States after the House of Commons adjourns in

.fuly and before ir reassembles towards the end of October. KNIGHTHOODS CONFERRED. ACCORDING TO CUSTOM. (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, .Tune 11. Customary knighthoods have been conferred upon the Attorney-General and the (Solicitor-General, who now become .Sir W. Jo witt and Sir J, B, Melville respectively.