LABOUR CAUCUS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19777, 3 November 1938, Page 20

LABOUR CAUCUS

MEETING BEGINS TO-DAY

FIRST SINCE ELECTION IMPORTANT ISSUES FUTURE PROGRAMME (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Members of the Parliamentary Labour Party are holding a caucus at Wellington to-day, and it is expected several important questions relating to the future programme of the Government will be discussed. The caucus, over which the Prime Minister, the Rt. lion. M. J. Savage, presides, is the first since the general election last month. The caucus is likely to extend over two days. Six members will be attending the caucus for the first time. They are the new Government members elected to the House of Representatives at the general election.

Mr. Savage said in an interview last evening that the caucus would give , members, an opportunity to express their views concerning what should be done in the future. Policy matters had, of course, already been submitted tb the electors, and it was a question of giving effect to them. “If the Government party is to justify its existence at all, its members are entitled to take some part in what is happening from time to time,” said Mr. Savage. “When you have 50 odd Labour members discussing problems to which they have given a great deal of thought, even long before they thought of entering Parliament, you will realise you are listening to people who can give some useful advice. All members of the Labour Party know something of the general fundamental problems, for they are the problems they have been thinking about for years. Individuals chosen as Labour candidates are selected because they know something of the fundamental principles underlying government.”