“IF I HAD BEEN PRIME MINISTER.”
COMMUNIST CONDEMNS LABOUR GOVERNMENT. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph-—Copyright.) . LONDON, August 4. I can think of nobody benefiting by the Labour Government but two reprieved murderers,” said Mr James Maxton, the Communist member of the House of Commons at the conference of the Independent Labour Party. I make this charge against Socialists generally,” he continued: “That they are adding their voices to the multitude declaring that it is impracticable to do the things in which they believe. I, and other members of the House of Commons representing industrial divisions, are ashamed to face our constituents, because Labour’s promises are not fulfilled. If I had been Prime Minister, I would have seen that the unemployed had an adequate allowance. I would have admitted M. Trotsky to Britain. I would have recognised Russia immediately. I would have re-established the housing subsidy and raised the school age, so assisting the unemplo}'ed.—Australian Press Association— United Service.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18830, 6 August 1929, Page 4
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