LABOUR PLAN

Southland Times, Issue 19125, 18 December 1923, Page 5

LABOUR PLAN

TO PUT ITS POLICY BEFORE THE PEOPLE. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, December 15 Mr “Jack” Jones, M.P. (Labour), speaking at Carlisle, said: “The Labour Party, if called on to form a Government, will place its programme before the people in the King’s Speech, and let the other people vote against it. Then we will go to the country and ask the people to come to a decision on the programme we placed before them.” 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 SOUTH AFRICAN VIEWPOINT. GENERAL SMUTS’S OPINION. CAPETOWN, December 16. Speaking at a banquet in his honour it Johannesburg, General Smuts said South Africans had no interest in the British flections or in any particular party or Government but he contended that unless the promises of the Imperial authorities were carried out the system would fall into discredit among the dominions which would ask why they should continue preference if the British electorate was hostile. In that case, they might have to reconsider their position. He expressed the opinion that preferences were not an issue at the British elections and if they were they were overwhelmingly defeated. General Smuts paid a tribute to the handsome action of the British Government, pointing out that there had been no bargaining. South Africa was prepared to revise her preference system and the Union Government proposed to submit the scheme to Parliament.