ENGLISH LIBERALS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16203, 29 November 1926, Page 10

ENGLISH LIBERALS

| LLOYD GBOEOE’S pPTIMISM ' (Australian an< N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, November %&. Mr. Lloyd' Uebrgc at- 'the land conference said: “If as hits been said tjm Liberals A ill never come into office,' neither’will Labor without Liberal help, which will not be forthcoming unjjl -it gives a guarantee that a better job will bo made of it- than in 1924. Jibe Liberals if united ivith a ejear definite purpose can at- any rate return sufficient members to dominate" the policy of the next Parliament 1 ," not. merely‘ to" assist as tit- last time, but to insist.” A STIR PREDICTEDLIFT IN CABINET'. LONDON, November 17. Settlement of the coal dispute is expected to mack the beginnings a serious split in the Government's ranks, which may lead to a general election. The Cabinet split is now wide open. One faction, led by Mr. Baldwin, favors a polic;- of coiiciliation between Labor and Capital, with the idea, of getting all ba’k to work as soon as possible, and recovering lost trade and uniting the Empire. The other faction, led' bv"Lord Birkenhead, Secretary for India, is pressing most strongly for ahti-Labor legislation that will make another strike impossible. Mr. Baldwin feels—and the shrewdest observers agree—that the Conservatives have lost ground in the" coiintry on-ac-count of their" handling of‘ the strike, and that if an election’wefe held now, l abor would win: ' ■ Lord’ Birkenhead’s group insists that now is the time for an election,-making the issue the cKpffin~ of the wings of the trade unions; and they believe the >ntrv would return the Lord Birkenhead-is urging thef passing of--legislation 'D 'make the union leaders perScnallv res"> fAr - breaches of contract in idi r-etirm w’th strikes.Naiid forbidding stride* unH]‘ a secret ballot lias been taken introducing ‘something like the Fascist scheme of cdnipnlkoj-y arbitration. - • ' l "' ” '*- !0 ■ Mr. Lloyd George, a keen judge of political sjtuat'ons, has postponed his trip to'Russia *n"order to be bn the spot id the event- of early elections. -1 *»* 'Meanwhile active' riegotidtions for an alliance v are being 5 earned out*-Between Mr. ipeb'rge and 'the Labor phity.