ELECTION BATTLE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 244, 15 October 1931, Page 7

ELECTION BATTLE

BRITISH CONTESTANTS MR HENDERSON’S OPPONENT STRONG SUPPORT SECURED By Telegraph—Press Association--Copyright.' Received Oct. 14, 8.40 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 13. At present thero are 44 straight fights out of 62 constituencies in London, including Miss Cazalet, Conservative, against Mrs Manning, Labourite, at East Islington. This is the first sole women’s fight. Sir George Hennessey says that the Conservatives arc making more sacrifices than anybody to secure unity. The Conservatives arc not contesting Caithness where Sir A. 11. Sinclair, Liberal, supports the National Govern ment. The Liberals are leaving Admiral Suctcr to a straight-out fight against a Labourite. Mr Henderson, arriving at Purnley. struck a note of gravity not expected by the enthusiastic welcome. He said ho was under no illusion regarding the difficulty of tho task ahead. Ho trusted that supporters would carry on tho fight while he was helping elsewhere. Mr Campbell, Mr Henderson’s opponent, is securing rtrong support. He declares that he is not standing as a politician but as an ordinary man who realises his country’s need. The unemployed on October 5 numlxrcd 2, 791,520, a decrease of 33,252 duo to tho return to work of 63,500, who had temporarily stopped, while the unemployed increased by 28,000. BLURRING THE ISSUE TARIFFS CAMPAIGN ATTACKED LONDON, Oct. 12. In the course ot his address on the general ejection campaign, Lord Grey said that tho issue was not tariffs but national stability versus national ruin. Referring to tho Darwen imbroglio, he said that tho opposition to Sir Herbert Samuel was unpatriotic, and if it resulted in a Labour victory his opponents would have stabbed tho nation in tho back.

It was a provocation to other constituencies, ho said, and if tho issue were blurred by tho Conservatives through advancing protection and giving the impression of trying to exploit the national peril for party gain, nobody was able to say what a contused democracy might do.

ELECTION UNOPPOSED GOVERNMENT SUPPORTERS LONDON, Oct. 13. The first members of tho new Parliament arc Messrs John Buchan and A. Noel Skelton (Conservatives), andD. M. Cowan (National Liberal), who have boon elected unopposed. Sir John Mellors has withdrawn from Luton in favour of the National Liberal, Mr Burgin. Mr Baldwin is thus far unopposed. MACDONALD'S SPEECH ■ GREAT TASK AHEAD [ British Official Wireless. ] RUGBY, Oct. 13. The Prime Minister, in opening his election campaign at Seaham, said that thero was a tremendous moral effect when word went round the globe that Britain in distress -would stand together. He urged that they should give the world another thrill on October 28. Referring to the Government’s task, he said that they must get tho Budget balanced. It was going to bo difficult, but it had to be done. They must, moreover, end borrowing. There was no lack of confidence. That was owing to the fa«ct that there was a Government which had the respect of th whole world. The next thing they had to do was to pave tho way for inter national conferences to deal with war debts, reparations, and so on. The Prime Minister and Lord Stonehaven both denied the allegation in the Labour morning paper that tho National Party members supporting the National Government were receiving financial assistance from tho Conservative Party’s funds. The Primo Minister said that the money available for tho National Labour Party camo from well-to-do supporters of the Labour movement and from their own personal friends. Though the fund thus formed was not large it was adequate for their purpose. There were now 28 National Labour candidates.

While conducting the election campaign at Scaham, tho Prime Minister continues to keep in touch with the national and international affairs and particularly tho developments in tho SineJapanese dispute. It is anticipated that he will interrupt his election activities on Thursday and return to London by air to deal with any developments that require his presence.

SOUND FINANCE”

BRITISH CO-OPERATION. Received Oct. 14, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 13. Mr. Baldwin, in a broadcast speech, said: “There must be differences of opinior over matters of reconstruction as time goes on, but for the election we stand solid together for sound, clean and honourable finance.”

WOULD WRECK COUNTRY

LABOUR PARTY’S PROGRAMME MR MACDONALD’S ASSERTION Received October 14, 11.37 p.m. LONDON, Oet. 14. Mr MacDonald, at Seaham, said that tho Labour Party’s programme would wreck the country. lie expressed comp’ete confidence in his new colleagues, lie was perfectly certain that neither Mr Baldwin nor Air Samuel would cheat him.

Tho Labourites arc putting up a stiff fight. Money is coining in from she trade unions—£sooQ from the general and municipal workers, £SOO from dis-

tributive workers. A Legion of Loyalists, already 200 strong, formed to ’combat election hooliganism, have offered their services to National speakers, and the organiser, who is the six-footer, L. Hirst Chiswick* ite, says: “We are prepared to act as stewards, use our fists and do any ‘chucking out* necessary. We have no time for Communists/’