LABOUR’S JUNIOR MINISTERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 687, 12 June 1929, Page 1

LABOUR’S JUNIOR MINISTERS

Ben Turner as Mines Secretary

LIBERAL STALWART INCLUDED

British Official Wireless Received 11 a.m. RUGBY, Tuesday. r£ list of junior Ministerial appointments was issued this evening. Owing to the delay in additional appointments to the new Government, the Prims Minister has postponed his departure for his home at Lossiemouth, Scotland, until tomorrow.

Dr. Hugh Dalton becomes Parliamentary Under-Secretary of the Foreign Office. Apart from being a been student of foreign policies, he has considerable reputation as an economist. Mr. Arthur Ponsonby is appointed .Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Dominions. He was Under-Secre-tary for Foreign Affairs in the Labour Government of 1924. Mr. William Lunn becomes Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Colonies. He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Department of Overseas Trade In the Labour Administration of 1924. MR. BEN TURNER'S TASK

Mr. Bert Turner becomes Parliamentary Secretary of the Mines Department cf the Board of Trade. The Ministry cf Mines was abolished as a separate entity by the late Conservative Government, matters appertaining to mines reverting to the Board of Trade. Considerable importance, however, is attached by the new Labour Government to mines, and in entrusting the Secretaryship for Mines to Mr. Turner, Mr. MacDonald has chosen ono of the most able trade union leaders. Mr. Turner is general president of the National Union of Textile Workers, and as chairman of the General Council of the Trade Union Congress has played a leading part'in conferences with the employers, headed by Lord Melchett, for peace in industry.

Mr. C. G. Ammon has received the post of Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, which he held in the last Labour Administration, and Mr. George Hall becomes a Civil Lord of the Admiralty. CONVERTED LIBERAL

Dr. Christopher Addison, it is stated, has consented to fill the post < f Under-Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture! at the special and urgent request of the Prime Minister, in order that he may participate in promoting various agricultural schemes of the Government, in the preparation of which be has played a very active part. Dr. Addison is by profession a physician and surgeon. He was a Liberal member of Parliament from 1910 to 1922. He was Minister of Munitions and afterwards Minister in Charge of Reconstruction during the "ar. He was the first Minister of Health in Mr. Lloyd George's Coalition Government in 1919 to 1921. He left the Liberal Party and was elected for Swindon as a Labourite at the Genera] Election. Miss Susan Lawrence becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health. She has been an active member of the London County Council and the Poplar Borough Council. Dr. Drummond Shiels becomes Parliamentary Under-Secretary for India. He is specially interested in Dominion and Colonial conditions. He was a member of the Special Commission on the Ceylon Constitution. Lord Russell receives office for the first time as Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Transport. Mr. F. W. Pethick-Lawrence becomes financial Secretary to the Treasury. He is an authority on financial matters. He was one of the most ardent supporters of the suffragettes in their militant campaign for the vote just before the war. Lord de la Warr becomes Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the War Office, and Mr. Emanuel Shinwell Financial Secretary. Mr. Shinwell was Minister of Mines in the last Labour Government.

Other new Under-Secretaries are Mr. F. Montague, Air Ministry, Mr. IV. R. Smith, Board of Trade, Mr. Morgan Jones, Board of Education, Mr. Alfred Short, Home Office, and Mr. J. Lawson, Ministry of Labour.

with Mr. Hoover would deal with the general relations between Britain and America. But the opinion of those best able to judge is that he would deal particularly with naval armaments.

A British Official Wireless message says that General C. G. Dawes, the newly-appointed United States Ambassador to Britain, is due to arrive iu Loudon tomorrow, ancl it is reported that he will extend an invitation from President Hoover to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald to visit the United States in the autumn.

It is known that Mr. Baldwin, had he continued in office as Prime Minister, intended to pay a personal visit to the President of the United States this year, and it is considered likely that Mr. MacDonald may decide to make the journey.

If the project is carried out, the Prime Minister will probably go to the United States after the House of Commons adjourns in July, and before it reassembles toward the end of October.