Evening Star Newspaper, August 24, 1931, Page 3

WDONALD PUTS CAEER A SAEE Loss of Labor Following Is| Taced in Championing Coalition Rute. By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 24 —Ramsay Mac- Donald may have committed political suicide, some political observers believe, in turning his back on the extreme de- mands of many of his followers and championing the cause of coalition gov- ernment to save the country from finan- cial disaster, | Certainly his party is split wide open. One cection still follows him under the slogan, “Equal sacrifice by all,” but an- other powerful faction is violently op- posed to his program and refuses to countenance any sacrifice by the work- | ing class. Expulsion Threatened. As head of the new national gov- ernment Mr. MacDonald may achieve & name which will bulk large in history, but it may easily be that when the na- tional government has dene its werk and a general election is called he will find himself a leader without any con- siderable following. Indeed, slready there is a threat to expel him and his supporters from the Labor party. However that may be, at least he will have the eatisfaction of knowing that many pecple, even some of those who have been his bitter political enemies, are giving him credit for having made ! a great patriotic and personal sacrifice. They are acclaiming him as the man of the hour. Risks Career Third Time ‘This is the third time Ramsay Mac- Donald has risked his career for & Pprinciple. The first was years ago when as a young man he cast his lot with. the cause of labor. Then came the World er and his idealistic views impelled him to take a stand against the conflict in which his eountry already was engaged. England ulvhuleclnudhimnsrenep& and he was even expelled from the 'olf club in his home town of Lossiemouth. -nnx British leaders are receiving prominent mention as possibilities for places in the tem to form. They are: Ramsay MacDonak !rwln, d J. H. Thomas, 7; Philip !nowden 8; SI! Huben Samuel, 9. d, 1; Sir Austen Ch amberlain, 2; Stanley Baldwin, ary non-party 3; Lord Rea D. C., MONDAY, AUGUST 24 S FALL DUE TOPARTY FRICTION Dole and New Tax Proposal Cause MacDonald Govern- ment to Go on Rocks. By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 24.—It was discord in the Labor party which scuttled | Ramsay MacDonald’s cabinet after two years, two months and 15 days in office. The differences arose over methods of | avoiding a threatenedl budget deficit of $600,000,000. ‘The government was wrecked on the rocks of the unemployment dole and a proposal for new taxation. It proclaimed its slogan “Bqual sacrifice for all” and its ship went down with that unncr“ nailed to the mast. | The cabinet proposed to stave off the | deficit by levying $300,000,000 in new | taxes and lopping off about the same | | amount from national expenditures, mainly by cutting the dole. But the powerful Trades Union Con- gress cried “Hands off the dole” and | the leaders of the political opposition | | retorted “No more taxes.” Tried for Compromise. | For two weeks Mr. MacDonald stood off both while he tried to work out a compromise. Time after time in those tense days he was close to an agree- | ment, but both the Conservatives and Liberals stood pat in their demand that | at_least three-fourths of the bu | balancing be accomplished by ecos | instead of new taxes. Early today it looked as though the | government had agreed to,90 per cent | in the proposed cuts in expenditures, | but in the background stood that Trades i Union Congress, and there were pre- | system be interrupted in this time of | economic depression. The MacDonald government, second Laborite ministry in British history, came into power on the heels of a gen. Sral el:cunn in 1929, assuming office on | June | "The first Labor cabinet was formed | | in January, 1924, but could maintain | its hold on Parliament for only some- | thing less than 10 months. The Con- servatives returned to power and for | the next five years remained in office | under Stanley Baldwin. With the new general elections called | in 192, the Laborites succeeded in get- vernment King e has asked ng, 4; David Lioyd George, 5; Lord Now comes this economic crisis which hes deliberately cut adrift from that large section of his own party which refused to back him. Faces Bitter Opposition. When Prime Minister MacDonald national government LABOR CABINET O MacDonald Is Asked to Form Temporary Non-Party Government. IN GREAT BRITANN »..... a. 'BRITAIN RULED BY COALITION 'GOVERNMENT DURING WAR DAYS o~ Joined Forces in 1757 Under‘ Pitt. in 1782 Whe n FOX Was Leader and Agaln in 1853. | By the Associated Press. 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North 1343. “Sleey r s and capadly looked Sal am and hoi- wm 2. | opinion Ao 28 | ! | blames financial leaders ma, operum Teceived the news :( uuwum government's fall at his “T'm. ot surprised,” Wwas his laconic | still holds his | Asquith as premier and ‘then with |David Lloyd George as the head. |when the Conservatives withdrew and Mr. Lioyd George resigned. At a sub- sequent general election the Conserva- tives were returned to wnr and Bonar | ting a plurality in the House of Com- nspmmsms CLASH =~ |moms csgeurioe 301 foes, whi ton SON-MADE SHOES | with 59 votes, held the balance of | po-er and it was largely through their = suffrance that the MacDonald ministry |9 | was able to continue in office. ¥ the Associated Press. The' Geioe. o eiomaiits shoos. Has| ““l"”"‘ of Liberals. brought a difference of opinion be- | s MATDONAIA Eatered bis second min- tween the War and Justice Depart- sideration of the problems of unem- !mem.x 'ploymzm reduchtemn of armaments, the evacuation of the Rhineland lnd closer Secretary Hurley complained to con- co-uperauon with the League of Na- trfl]kr General McCarl that the Justice ent was charging it $2.73 | pair for 53,676 pairs of Army shoes, hlilndsl?l;]l dlol;md”éw“ee’(:’nl;‘ehvhflbe’l‘lh’? | while a St. Louss firm was charging | suppert he was able to hold the Oom | only $2.44 for the same number. | mons in line. Unemployment m Despite low labor costs, the Justice | steadily and on last January g the Department maintained it could not| figures were 2,608.406, representing an | make the shoes any cheaper. increase of 1,135,004 over the same flm | e e prison Recently there also was le With the memory of President Hoover’ 4 b h dictions of calamity should the dole | but ‘There was one such during the World g-r and there were others long before In the war days party government | gave way to coalition, first under Lord Law became prime mi Back in 1757 the. em Pitt combined with the Whig aristocracy represented by the Duke of Newcastle, and in 1782 s lr-t coalition was formed when Fox. reformist leader, joined forces with A wru North of the ‘When Lord Derby’s lhlm w!d |in 1853 there was a short ird coalition I’ith Mr. Lloyd George as prime minister was formed after a l!nernl election in 1918, | gvemmem llated unu: lln {Russell and the lnt‘ YOU ALITY AND on your patch p rlnl phone Decatur = Dew 360775 | must when any action, even if not . will be better than con- ual drifting.” Gen. Smuts is in England to attend “the coming centenial meeting of the British Assocfation for the Advance-| ent of Sctence. FRENCH PRESS SYMPATHETIC. PARIS, August 24 (#)—In the i ‘Toaay, the resignation of comment y, the na of | Ramsay m)l:d)mnld as prime minister of Great Britain opens the way for re- AGENT | vision of the whole British policy af- fecting finance and the dole. All but the Socialist newspapers as- sert that reform of the dole is an urgent necessity. The Liberal Oeuvre | asserts that England is now meeting the consequences of the “disastrous dole i system for which all British govern- | ments since Lioyd George sponsible.” British resistance to financial catas- trophe is strong, said the Paris Midi, but she must take steps quickly to re- establish the strength of the pound sterling Without _exception the newspapers are sympathetic in the British predica- ment, many recaliing the French crisis five vears Le Journal says: “England's experi- ence with a ent is fin- ished” and the Conservative Pigaro “who_engaged | colossal bluff of are re- the public fortune in international finance As between the faults of the dole and the financial policy, Le Matin as- serts that the dole is the worst. Burton-on-Trent’s first woman mayor s Miss Mary Goodger, who was chneen | by & unanimous vote, | AR 1% R | | 1 “See Etz and See Better” LD Satisfactory 8 4 progress cannot be children handicapped Have vour child's eyes ex amined before school starts. school expected at of who are by evestrain, Optometrists - e -fi- | tives under Lord | ment _between the Liberal-Unionists in be called a coalition, for the WORLD ELKS IN SESSION |ine mm responsibility of government rested on PHILADELPHIA, August 24 (®).— |the former, while the lstter gave them The thirty-sixth annual convention of |general support. the Improved Benevoient and Protec- | - tive Order of Elks of the World opened | yesterday with religious services. Business sessions will begin today. J. PFinley Wilson of Was md exalted ruler and Jesse Kelley or irmingham, Ala., grand secretary. 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At tbe Imperial Ovnferenole’ the status of as self-governing unm of the British Emvire .:u fur- ther No agreement was reached, however, on closer economic relations between the mother mmry, and the demhh{u posed, particular] Canada. problem was un over for & further conference, Weatliered Storm Successfully. ‘The action of the MacDonald govern- | | ment in turning thumbs down on a Canadian v-vpoul for dominion prefer- ences on the grounds that it would mean nxu on food brought sharp criticism from in a motion of nen-confidence, MacDonald weathered the storm | successfully. The round table conference produced lan _for a federal conmmuan in ln ia. The Gandhi followers who have demanding cmpleu nce buyekufl the conference. Since Mahatma Blndhl has declined to attend a second round table conference in London, but efforts .are continuing to persuade him to change his mind. In the international fleld MacDonald carried out many of his policies. Trad= relations with Soviet Russia were re- newed although complete diplomatic re- lations were not. An agreement was reached that Russia was not to carry on propaganda in British possessions. During the recent trial of eight Russian for treasonable activities , &s had £ cusations made publicly against promi- %flm . t the last wo_years British selaeuul.en flu occupied ter- ritory in Germany and they were fol- lowed by the French and Belgians, leav- ing German territory unoccupied for the first time since the end of the war. Arms Agreement Reached. events of the tion Ji ipated. -g: conference resulted in agreement on between Great ‘mwzmmmm a state of flux. the Conservatives who | associaf DEMENTED MINER: ATTACKS' wml‘ | Slashes Two len and ml Girl and Sets Fire to House Near Pittsburgh. i | BY the Associated Press, PITTSBURGH. August 24.—Wield- ‘m gan ax, a demented miner charged | | through “the Patch,” a settlement near Renton, yesterday, slashed two m. & small girl, set fire 1o a house, wrecked | furniture in a number of others ‘wu captured after a Me- possemen - | ~The ming mhnmx,-mum- | tims, Cathrine ~ Zummerling. Anamw-.cu and Joe lly hi Kiski _received a | pmh-bl:.fmnctm of the skull while re-: ! SRk “Pitacked nis wite while she, | held her baby. She fled with the child |and he set their home afire. he rushed | e wal s o} e; Ve was attacked at a nI:‘-' % child was slashed as ahe plly“ ‘beneath |a porrh A posse was formed by terrified eit izens and surrounded Kiski as he was® | felled by a man he tried to attack. Kiski formerly was an inmate at” lht State Insane Hospital It ‘Terrence, Pa. . 'RACKET BELIEVED BROKEN. NEW YORK. 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