BRITAIN’S PROBLEM

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17607, 24 October 1931, Page 6

BRITAIN’S PROBLEM

RESTORATION OF TRADE DEFINITE MANDATE NEEDED j ELECTION CAMPAIGN (British Official Wireless.) ,Rce. 2 pan. RUGBY, OH. 2,3. The Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay 'MacDonald, who visited Derby last night in support of tlie candidature of Mr, ,1. 11. Thomas, had a great reception, the streets being so crowded with cheering people mounted police had to be called to control the traffic. 'More than 4000 people attended the meeting, and later there was a dcirioristvation by about 10,000 people, who waited outside the hall to cheer Mr. MacDonald as’ he passed on to a second meeting in the constituency. Mr.- Philip Snowden ihtervened in the three-cornered' contest in hid old constituency, Colne Valley, where, although the National-Labor candidate 'has Withdrawn there are still two Government candidates, a Conservative and a National-Liberal, opposed by a Labor candidate. Mr. Snowden, in i letter to the electors, deplores the splitting of the Government vote and urges them in view of tlie special circumstances of tho constituency to void for the Liberal candidate.

Mr. Stanley Baldwin again delivered a broadcast address last- night. The National Government, lie said, had carried out, the first part of its task. If it was to restore the country’s trade it now required a definite mandate from the electors so that' it might have the necessary powers and authority. The time would come when they must all concentrate on creating work to .replace the doles. That was the only solution of the national problem, and it would be one aim of tho National Government. The wages of tho working people, standard' social services, cost of living, and',savings were all dependent on maintaining the 'financial stability of the country and 1 restoring trade. Another issue to be decided at the election was whether the country was to be governed by tlie representatives sent to Parliament to look after the interests of the people, or to bo domiiP ated by the Trades Union Congress which, Mr. Baldwin said, had attempt ed to overrule Parliament.

Sir John' Siinon,. speaking in Sped Valley, also demanded as a result of the election that the pretensions of organised trades' union opinion to dictate to British democracy should be overthrown.