FIRST RESIGNATIONS
BRITISH LABOR PARTY FAILURE OF POLICY (British Official Wireless.) Ree. noon. RUGBY, Feb. 25. Sir Oswald Mosley to-day issued a manifesto signed by 16 other Labor members of Parliament elaborating his recent proposals for emergency measures to deal with unemployment and industrial reorganisation. Mr. E, J. St. h. Strachy and Dr. R. Forgan, members of the House of Lominons and supporters of Sir Oswald Moslev’s new partvyhavc written separately to Mr. MacDonald, resigning from the Labor Party. Mr. Strachey complains that the Government ignored the warning of the approaching economic crisis. It rejected constructive proposals for the reabsorption of unemployed, and is now compelled to .adopt its opponents’ policy of reducing the working class standards of living. Dr. Forgan accuses the Government of departing from its election policy in failing to undertake the task of national construction, and entering into an alliance with Mr. Lloyd George, whom it ridiculed in 1929.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17502, 26 February 1931, Page 7
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153FIRST RESIGNATIONS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17502, 26 February 1931, Page 7
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