The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-26
KING GEORGE
 DISSOLvES
 PARLIAMENT !
Labor Party Leaders Wag- ing Active Campaign for General Election.

London, Oct. 26-(By the A. P.}
 king George dissolved Parlia-
 proclamation at meeting of the
 prfvy council at SandriHgham.
 The proclamation will be publish
 ed in the official Gazette this after
 noon, VacatinS every parliament
 tary seat in the country.
 Oratory by aspirants for seats in the new Parliament already fills the land. By the end of the week the Thirteen hundred candidates have up to now entered the campaign for membership in the House of Com mons. Of these about 425 are Con- serVatives. In round number Labor has 400 candidates in the field, the Asquithfan or Free Liberals 300 and the Lloyd Georgian or National Lib erals 200. The little Welshman who week is vigorously striving to increase the number of candidates under his banner.
 To obtain an outright majority in the new parliament any one party would have to elect 315 candidates. 1t will be seen, therefore, that the Con serVat1ves and Laborites are the only two with enough candidates in the neld to obtain an independent major 1ty. Their organizations have been whipped into far better shape than those Of the other parties.
 LaboriteS Festive.
 The Laborite manifesto holds a prominent place in all the morning papers today They emphasize it's 1Ieadlng I points in heavy type head labor platform is to most of the pa pers- Only two of them devote a full edltor1al to the manifesto. The Morn and a rather obvious failure to dis semble the iron claws of communism In the nice woolen glove of charity"
 The West minister Gazette admits hn- fe, manifesto which the Liberals readily endorse, but says the task to which labor has set itself is hercuIean and would need the work of many parlia- Laborite proposal to fix higher levies upon capital, the Gazette declares that whether or not this was practi caoie or desirable during the boom period Of 1919. it is neither desirable of depression.''
 One of the main centers of interest m the whole election is Glasgow, where the new prime minister An drsW Bonar Law, has two opponents tn his campaign for reelection as the member from the central division of that city. Former Bailie Mitchell is his opponent on the Labor ticket and Sir George Paish is opposing him as a free liberal.
 Waging Actve Campaign.
 Labor Is making a. very strong cam paIgn among the large population of Glasgow. At present only one of the 10 constituents in that city Is repre- scented by a labor member, but the party has for a long while conducted earn est propaganda in the big indus- trial communities and it seems to fulfill its hope of gaining a larger representation.
 - One of the candidates in Glasgow ts the Communist. John MaoIsean, ,wh ose term of 12 months in prison for sedi- ton expired yesterday. Treated as a political prisoner, MacLean devoid a great part of his time behind the bars to the study of political mat ters. Coming at this time. his new freedom brings to mind the fact that he was released from confinement while undergoing a similar punish ment in order that he could partici- pate in the elections of that year.
 Reports that Premier Bonar Law in his expected reform of administra- tive departments might re1egate the works of the ministry Of labor, to some other department have strongly aroused the leaders of the labor party who will vigorously oppose any such change. The Labor ministry, found ed in 8 small way in 1916, has grown to be a, big department with an an nual expenditure of almost $5,00O,000 pounds for salaries and allowances alone.