LABOUR CAUCUS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21184, 3 November 1938, Page 6

LABOUR CAUCUS

Members Assemble To-day Government’s Future Policy By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, November 2. Members of the Parliamentary Labour Party will hold a caucus in Wellington to-morrow, when it is expected that several important questions relating to the future programme of the Government will be discussed. The caucus, over which the Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage), will preside, will be the first since the general election last month, and a full attendance is expected. Several Labour Members from outside centres arrived in Wellington to-day, and others are due to arrive to-morrow morning. The caucus is likely to extend over two days. Six members will be attending a caucus for the first time. They are the new Government members elected to the House of Representatives at the general election. Mr Savage said in an Interview this evening that the caucus would give members an opportunity to express their views concerning what should be done in the future. Policy matters had. of course, already been submitted to the electors, and it was a question of giving effect to them. “If the Government Party is to justify its existence at all, its members are entitled to take some part in what is happening from time to time,” said Mr Savage. "When you have 50 odd Labour members discussing problems to which they have given a great deal of thought, even long before they thought of entering Parliament, you realise you are listening to people who can give some useful advice. All members of the Labour Party know something of the general fundamental problems, for they are problems they have been thinking about for years. Individuals chosen as Labour candidates are selected because they know something of the fundamental principles underlying Government.”