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...Labor in power will remove the unjustified restrictions upon trades union activity introduced by the Tory Government in 1927. . . . The party pledges itself to reverse immediately the harsh policy of the National [MacDonald] Government in reducing unemployment benefits [the dole...
Worried Emperor. Simple Arithmetic. Thus the party that once was James Ramsay MacDonald's pledged itself last week: 1) to nationalize the business of British bankers; 2) to wring cancellation of War Debts & Reparations from President Hoover* 3) to reorganize British industry a la Russe under an X-Year Plan; 4) to restore to British unions the right to organize another British General Strike (TIME, May 10 to 24, 1926); 5) to increase British dole payments (British unemployed added up to an official all-time record total of 2,825,772 last week, almost 10% of the electorate...
Plainly it was no wonder that George V tried, as Britons learned he did, to dissuade Prime Minister MacDonald up to the very last moment from advising (i. e. forcing) His Majesty to prorogue Parliament and throw Britain's political future into the General Election...
Equally plainly, Scot MacDonald and the Conservative Party (bulwark of his National Government) believed last week that the risk of social upheaval is offset if not canceled by a strong probability that the Labor Party cannot win. In 1929 the Labor Party, led by Mr. MacDonald with a united front, polled 8.416,557 votes, the Conservatives 8,669,469, the Liberals...
Perhaps George V cheered up his discouraged subject. On leaving His Majesty, the Prime Minister launched into a new series of high-pressure conferences. David Lloyd George, sick and known to oppose an immediate election, was hunted out by Scot MacDonald in his very bedroom. As conviction grew that the Prime Minister had made up his mind to an election, something snapped in the Seaham Labor Party machine. Two Laborite groups broke away, wired the occupant of No. 10 Downing St. that he could stand as their candidate...