Labours Campaign Launched in Britain
UNEMPLOYMENT FIRST RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA (United ScrviceJ Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Sunda> Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, launching Labour's election campaign at a great rally iri the Albert Hall, said: “Unemployment bulks largest in the Labour Party's mind. Britain to-day is facing a complete revolution in transport, owing to the development ot motors and electricity, which the Labour Party believes must be assisted or Britain will be unable to c(|,npete in foreign markets.” Labour proposed to appoint a com mitteo over which the Prime Minister would preside, to which all questions of markets, currency and industry would be referred. Roads would be built systematically, bridges broken down and reconstructed, and railways reconditioned. “We want peace in Europe, and diplomatic. relations with Russia, which if it had committed 10,000 times the faults and crimes of which it is accused. cannot be left out by any farseeing man.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 649, 29 April 1929, Page 9
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