POLICY OF LABOUR.
WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED. RUSSIA BACK IN THE FOLD. United Service. LONDON, April 28. Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald launched tho Labour Party's election campaign at a great rally in the Albert Hall. He said unemployment bulked most largely in the party's mind.
Britain to-day was facing a complete revolution in transport owing to the development of motors and electricity which the Labour Party believed must be assisted or Britain would not be able to compete with foreign markets.
The Labour Party proposed to appoint a committee over which the Prime Minister would preside, to which all questions of markets, currency and industry would be referred. Roads would be built systematically, bridges would be broken down and reconstructed, railways would be reconditioned.
They wanted peace in Europe and a renewal of diplomatic relations with Russia. If Russia had committed 10,000 times the faults and crimes of which she had been accused, she could not be left out by any far-seeing man.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20242, 30 April 1929, Page 11
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