PROSPECT OF ELECTION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20979, 16 September 1931, Page 9

PROSPECT OF ELECTION.

POSSIBLY NEXT MONTH. REPORT IN DAILY HERALD. PROGRAMME OF LABOUR. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received September 15. 10.35 p.m.) LONDON. Sept. 15. The Daily Herald says the Conservatives, headed by Mr. Neville Chamberlain, who have been pressing for an early election, have carried the day, and plans are being made for a dissolution next week. Polling will be on October 15, when the new register conies into operation. The Conservatives will fight on the tariff issue. None of the other newspapers confirms the Daily Herald's forecast of an almost immediate dissolution. Nevertheless the Herald takes the report seriously enough to devote a leader to the Labour Party's programme. Although it uses some familiar antiprotection arguments, it cannot be said definitely to adhere to free trade. It says the ramshackle Coalition Government is not really anxious to fight now, but is terrified at the prospect of fighting later. The Conservatives seek to evade the electors' judgment by plundering the poorest class at the dictation of tho bankers, and by promising tariffs as a ciye for unemployment, although tariffridden Germany and tho United btates are staggering under unemployment. Labour will enter the fight confidently, and will seek power to remedy tho newest injustices and to deal with the finances on a basis of genuine equality of sacrifice, and to overhaul the antiquated and inefficient banking system which is largely responsible for the present trouble.