LABOUR MANIFESTO

Southland Times, Issue 21263, 9 December 1930, Page 5

LABOUR MANIFESTO

NATURAL BALANCE Ob' TRADE. (United Press Assn.—By, Telegraph—Copyright.) London, December 7. Eighteen members of the House of Commons have signed the Mosley manifesto, which says that a natural balance of trade should be developed under the commonwealth plan of mutual advantage not conflicting with foreign trade. “We should aim at building within the commonwealth a civilization high enough to absorb the production of modern machinery which must be largely insulated from the wrecking forces elsewhere,” states the manifesto. Mr A. J. Cook, Sir Oswald and Lady Mosley, Mr Oliver Baldwin and 15 other Labour members of the House of Commons have issued a manifesto urging action to avert a nation-wide crisis. They urge the vesting of wider powers in the Government, the creating of an'emergency Cabinet of five Ministers without portfolios to execute the policy, the creation of a new balance between agriculture and industrial production, the organizing of markets, control of imports and the sheltering of workers from sweating. They also advocate a protective tariff, Imperial and foreign trading agreements, a reduction of taxation and the institution of a scheme for slum clearance and rehousing and using the unemployed therein. POLICY TO MEET EMERGENCY. (British Official Wireless.)

(Rec. 5.5 p.m) Rugby, December 7. Sir Oswald Mosley states that he and his colleagues have no intention of taking action in Parliament that will result in replacing the present Administration by a Conservative Government. The manifesto, he said, was a statement of policy designed to meet the present emergency, but could only be carried through if it secured national support. INDEPENDENT PARTY'S ATTITUDE. (Rec. 7.40 p.m.) London, December 8. The council of the Independent Labour Party, under the chairmanship of Mr .1. Maxton, disagreed with the Mosley manifesto as immediately benefiting the working classes. Mr Maxton continues negotiations with Mr Henderson.