UNEMPLOYMENT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 28 May 1930, Page 5

UNEMPLOYMENT

COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY PROBLEM IN BRITAIN SIGN IFICANT SPEECHES (United Press Association—By Eleetrio Telegraph—Copyright! LONDON, 27th May. Two noteworthy references to unemployment were made in speeches delivered last night. .Mr .MacDonald, addressing his constituents of Scaham Harbour, said that the unemployment problem had changed since the General Election. It would not then have been, fair to ask other parties to co-operate with Labour. The Government had its policy, the Tories had theirs, and they could not be united. Circumstances were now changing on the national aspects of unemployment, and the Government would now welcome any amount of co-operation. Mr Lloyd George, speaking at Nottingham, said that he would be surprised if the unemployment figures stopped before the two million mark. Therefore it was essential for all moil of goodwill to devote themselves to ending an evil which was eating the vitals of the nation. “The Liberals had put forward a policy, hut it was renounced. All right; let Labour take it and act upon it.” . These speeches gain further significance from the fact that Mr MacDonald assumed the chairmanship of the Cabinet Committee on Unemployment on the eve of the adjourned debate on Mr Thomas’s salary on Wednesday.