BRITISH PARTIES PLAN CAMPAIGNS FOR ELECTIONS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18578, 28 September 1928, Page 5

BRITISH PARTIES PLAN CAMPAIGNS FOR ELECTIONS.

REVIEW OF POLICIES BEING COMPLETED. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) RUGBY, September 26. Although it is generally believed that the next general election will not take place in Great Britain before next summer, all three parties will, in the next fortnight, have completed the review of their election policies. The Conservative stocktaking will begin in earnest to-morrow, when 2600 delegates will meet at Yarmouth and will hear a speech from the Prime Minister. Subsequent discussions will be concerned primarily with industrial policy, including a scheme for relieving productive industry of a large portion of its present burden, a scheme for the promotion of industrial peace and co-partnership, and the possibilities of economy in the national expenditure. One of the most important subjects to be discussed is that of the suggested extension of safeguarding of industries by specific duties on imported goods. There are thirteen resolutions on the agenda bearing on this subject, but the debate will probably be confined to a resolution, to be moved by Sir Henry Page Croft, for the widest possible extension of safeguarding consistent with the Prime Minister’s election pledge. It is anticipated that Mr Baldwin, in his public speech to-inorrow night, will deal in some detail with this question, and with that of migration within the Empire as a contribution towards the solution of the unemployment problem.

On Sunday the annual conference of the Labour Party will be opened at Birmingham. A statement of policy which has been before the affiliated bodies for some time will be discussed, section by section.

Included in the report is a recommendation which marks another stage in the Labour Party’s combat against Communist activities. Former decisions of the party conference have had the effect of excluding from the various party conferences delegates who are members of the Communist Party as representatives of local Labour parties, but this bar has not been put up effectively against Communist delegates from trade unions. If the recommendation is adopted, it will lay on the affiliated trade unions definite obligations not to send any Communist delegates to political conferences. Next week the Liberal Party conference will assemble at Yarmouth for discussion of the party’s policy.— British Official Wireless.