PRIVATE MEETING

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9304, 24 November 1938, Page 3

PRIVATE MEETING

CtffIPJIGN fGUSST GOVERNMENT A “UNITED FRONT” OFFICIAL LABOUR DENIAL Australian and N.Z. Gable LONDON, November 22. Heads of the Labour Party and the co-operative movement will meet privately in London to-morrow to discuss a campaign to overthrow the Government. The fact that the agenda does not exclude consideration of policy foi this purpose is one factor which has given rise to reports of plans for the formation of a national opposition. Ths would be a “united front” of Liberals and Labour with some Conservative dissidents and Independents, not only for the defeat ol' Mr Chamberlain, but to prepare as an alternative Government. Official Labour sources, however, deny that overtures have come from other quarters aiming at the defeat of the Government, and declare that the present intention of the Labour party is to fight the next general election as the only alternative Government.