IMPORTANT POLITICAL MOVES IN BRITAIN

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19258, 20 December 1930, Page 1

IMPORTANT POLITICAL MOVES IN BRITAIN

LABOUR SCHEMES TO KEEP LIBERAL SUPPORT. < United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON 7 , December 19. Important political moves designed to enable the Labour Party to retain office for a further two years, or face an earlier general election with what ar considered to be good battle cries, were made yesterday, when the Trades Disputes Bill was introduced into the House of Commons. The “Daily Herald” declares that the new Bill completely- wipes out Mr Baldwin’s Act, passed after the general strike of 1926. Sympathetic strikes will be legalised, and no strike can be declared illegal on account of its mere magnitude. The political levy will be restored and the civil services will be permitted to organise. Sir Oswald Mosley told the Labour Party that they would lose a hundred seats if they went to the country in the immediate future. Mr MacDonald wound up in the same strain. He seemed, like the rest, to assume that the Liberals were so frightened that they were prepared to risk anything rather than an election at present. It remains to be seen whether Sir

John Simon and others share this view The “News-Chronicle” is reconciled to a further period of Labour government. It says: “However bitterly the Liberals may criticise the Government, it is infinitely preferable to a protectionist Tory Administration.”