AVOIDING AN ELECTION

Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1930, Page 11

AVOIDING AN ELECTION

THE BUSINESS OF PARLIAMENT.

LABOUR’S ATTITUDE EXPLAINED. (By Wire—Parliamentary Reporter). Wellington, Last Night. “Every party in the House to-day considers it is the business of the House to avoid an election,” said Mr. J. W. Munro (Labour, Dunedin North) in the House of Representatives to-day. “I think if the Labour Party had voted with the Reform Party and had caused a general election it would have meant suicide for the Labour Party and the end of the Reform Party. The people do not want an election at the present time. “We are a reflection of the opinion of the country. The relations between the Labour Party and the United Party are certainly closer than those between Labour and Reform. If there was an election to-morrow the people would recognise that the preSent position was the heritage or continuance of the slump that started before the Reform Party went out of office. We would not have got the Unemployment Bill from the Reform Government, and we are voting with the Government because we believe something will be incorporated in the Bill giving every man the right to work. ° “The country generally is not concerned with the Reform Party, the United Party or the Labour Party—not a little bit- They want the best brains of the three parties .to endeavour to bring about some relief in the conditions in the country.”