BRITISH POLITICS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19012, 7 November 1923, Page 7

BRITISH POLITICS

THE PROTECTION CAMPAIGN. DAY OF LABOUR HASTENED. Prra« Aasocifetion—By T«leßi»pb—Copyrlg«* LONDON, N, ember 5Mr J. R. Clynes, speaking at banderland, said that Labour was indebted to Mr Baldwin for hastening the advent of a Labour Government, for if Mr Baldwin were empowered to practise his new Protection its failure to cure unemployment, which was an absolute certainty, would produce a national reaction against the futility of Toryism, which would bring Labour into office. Labour recognised that Freetrade would not prevent unemployment, but Protection would cause more of it, as the Anti-Dumping Act showed that trade no longer followed the flag but the current of international amity.—A. and N.Z. Cable. MR BALDWIN’S PROPOSALS. CRITICISM BY MR ASQUITH. LONDON, November 5. Mr Asquith, spealdng at Dewsbury, declared that though the conditions had changed since the last Tariff Reform campaign they had changed in the direction of strengthening and not weakening the Freetrade case. He believed that the process of definite and detailed interrogation which had killed Mr- Chamberlain’s proposals in 1903 would kill Mr Baldwin’s belated and half-hearted substitutes.—A. and N.Z. Cable. WARWICK AND LEAMINGTON. COUNTESS OF WARWICK’S DEBUT. LONDON, November 6. (Received No. 6, at 9.35 p.m.) Tire Countess of Warwick made her debut as a Labour candidate before a crowded audience at the Leamington Town Hall. She wore a black satin fur-trimmed frock, long diamond ear-rings, a hat of black panne with jet ornaments and black shoes with red heels. In a bright and animated speech she said she would like to divide the- world into two classes. The upper class would be composed of the people who worked with hand and brain, the professional classes joining with the manual workers. The lower class would be composed of idlers and people who did' not add anything to the work of the world. Many young men on leaving Oxford and Cambridge were joining the Labour Party. — A. and N.Z. Cable. The Countess of Warwick is contesting the Warwick and Leamington seat in the interests of Labour. The vacancy was created by the appointment of Sir Ernest Pollock as Master of the Rolls.