BRITISH ELECTION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19047, 18 December 1923, Page 7

BRITISH ELECTION

LABOUR PARTY’S POSITION. PROTECTION FOR LABOUR SUPPORTERS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, December 15. The Chancery Court granted William Young, of Braintree, an injunction restraining George Mills, his partner in a brushmaking business, from dismissing without Young’s consent any of the firm's employees on the ground that they had supported Labour at the election. —A. and N.Z. Cable. STATEMENT BY LABOUR M.P. WHAT THE PARTY WOULD DO. LONDON, December 16. Mr Jack Jones, M.P., (Labour), speaking at Carlisle, said: “The Labour Party, if called on to form a Government, would place its programme before the people in the King’s Speech, and let the other people vote against it. Then wo will go to the country and ask the people to come tc a decision on the programme we placed before them.” —Reuter. RUSSIAN BOLSHEVIKS HOPEFUL. EXPECTATIONS OF RECOGNITION. LONDON, December 16. The Daily Telegraph’s political observer says: “Important meetings - are talcing place at the 1 oreign Office at Moscow in connection with the possibility of a Labour Government coming into power in Britain, which the Bolsheviks will delightedly welcome; while the Third International Committee believes that even a short-lived British Labour Government would immediately recognise the Soviet. Better advised diplomats point out that no British Government would concede recognition without demanding substantial trading advantages in return. The Soviet regime has now been weakened by the protracted financial crisis, of which there is no end in sight, and it would bo at a disadvantage for such bargaining.—A. and N.Z. Cable. SOVIET DELEGATION IN ENGLAND. ACTIVE PROPAGANDA. LONDON, December 15. The Daily Telegraph’s political correspondent states that the Soviet Trade Delegation in England is actively preparing for the moment which it considers imminent when the Labour Government will put Russia on an equal footing with civilised countries. Numerous meetings at which prominent English bocialists have been present have been held with the object of creating an Anglo-Russian entente. —A. and N.Z. Cable.