LABOUR CAUCUS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 121, 25 May 1938, Page 7

LABOUR CAUCUS

LEGISLATION FOR COMING SESSION. [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, May 24. A caucus of members of the Parliamentary Labour Party will be held at Wellington to-morrow. The Prime Minister, Hon. M. J. Savage, who will presided, said this evening that the meeting was likely to extend over two days. , “Members of the caucus," said Mr. Savage, "will be given a rough outline of the legislation to be submitted to Parliament at the forthcoming session. Obviously only a rough outline of the Government’s legislative proposals can be given because the Bills have to be drafted. The old idea of things was for Cabinet to do just as it liked and only call a caucus of its supporters when it got into difficulties. Our job is to tell our supporters what we are doing and what we propose to do in order to avoid getting into situations like that. There is nothing unusual in having a caucus ol the Parliamentary Labour Party just new. The party will always be having caucuses, whether it is the Government or in Opposition, so every man in the party will know what is happening.” Asked if he could indicate when the session”of Parliament would open, Mr, Savage said that no decision had yet been made. Cabinet would have tc decide when Parliament was to be called together. There was no reason to believe that Parliament would meet at other than the normal time—toward the end or June.