BRITAIN'S UNEMPLOYED
SUGGESTED CONFERENCE. CONSERVATIVES STAND OUT. British Wireless. RUGBY, June 19. The Loader of the Conservatives, Mr. Baldwin, to-day wrote to the Prime Minister, Mr. Mac Donald, stating that his party declined (o accept tho invitation to take part in a tripartite conference on unemployment, which the Liberals have accepted. No official explanation of the Conservatives' attitude is available, but it is understood that one of Mr. Baldwin's principal reasons for refusing Mr. MacDonald's offer is that (he Government will not consider a safeguarding policy as a remedy for unemployment. Miss Margaret Bondfield, Minister of Labour, stated in the House of Commons to-day that the number of persons classified as belonging to the iron and steel industries registered as unemployed in Britain is 68,000.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20596, 21 June 1930, Page 13
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