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Plainly Great Britain's electoral system is ripe and rotten for reform. Everyone assumed at first last week that Prime Minister MacDonald, by promising this reform, had bought the votes of Liberal Leader David Lloyd George & cohorts, would use them to repeal the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Bill. But prominent Liberals refused to confirm any such bargain. The promise of reform was evidently not a bribe, but a bait...
Goaded, Scot MacDonald made his most important public statement in recent months. He revealed that the Labor Cabinet, dominated by Free-Trader Philip Snowden, has decided to refuse the dominion prime ministers' demand that Great Britain lay a tariff on non-Empire foodstuffs, such a tariff being intended to result in larger purchases of foodstuffs by the Mother Country from her dominions. Briefly, momentously the Prime Minister said...
Thus defiantly Scot MacDonald stated the fact that millions of Great Britain's laboring men will not stand for a tax or tariff of any sort which they think might raise the price of bread. His words were widely said to have "killed the Conference" which made no progress last week, prepared to adjourn...
Yellow Flag. Hottest criticism of the speech from the Throne came from sallow, fiery Laborite left winger James Maxton, M.P. He flayed the speech as not Socialist, accused Scot MacDonald of "running up the yellow flag of Liberalism." But a Maxton motion that the House "humbly regrets" the non-Socialist character of the Royal speech was defeated by 156 votes...
...opening of the Labor Government's first Parliament (TIME, July 15, 1929) the Lord Chancellor, Sir John Sankey, substituted for George V, still convalescent, read Socialist MacDonald's first speech. Labor's first government (TIME, January-November 1924) witnessed no opening of Parliament...