The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-27
Conservatives And Liber-
 als Plan For General Y Elections SUDDEN CHANGE
 FOUND IMPOSSIBLE Can't Perform Magician's
 Tricks, Pleads Labor ite Minister
MANY PROBLEMS
 REMAIN UNSOLVED
Opposition Awaits Opportune Moment To End MacDOn-
 aid Ministry
By CHARLES sM'CANN { (Leased Wire to Age.Herald)
 Copyright, 1024l

LONDON, Sept. 26.-Brit- aims first labor government is sliding to the end of its ca reer.
 Conservatives and liberals alike today are preparing for a general election which, ob- servers believe, will mark a futile and mild "finis" to the regime which entered into building a new world.
 There is every indication that a general election may be precipitated within the next few weeks. New develop ments may possibly delay the election until next spring, but Britain knows that the days of it's labor rulers are already numbered.
 The laborites are attempting to pro long their stay in office in the hope that their waning prestige will flame up again. The opposition is awaiting what seems to be the fitting moment for scuttling 1abor's craft.
 Had Early Triumph
 In the early months of their period in power the labor leaders sailed a tri- umphant course. Now they are among the rocks of a half dozen vexati0us questions, on any one of which they may be wrecked. They have found that governing. Britain was not as easy as it seemed. Labor began by boast ing that it would solve the country's s problems on assuming power. But when the moment of assumpetion of power came the labor leaders found it impossible suddenly to change the gov ernmental system without Russianizing the country.
 Within few months after that day when, with beating drums and chal- lenging colors, labor entered office, one of the laborite ministers, guarded by opposition taunts, pleaded [, that i've can't evolve schemes like migician pulling rabbits out of hat.''
 Has Done Its Best
 The opposition knew this. The oppo-
  ized that labor had done its best. But members of the labor's own party fail ed to see why labor had not built it's new world.
 A situation has now arisen in which if the labOrites please their own pow erful left wing they will be defeated, while unless they keep them amend able the party eventually will split. The labor government is between the stone wall of it's opponents, and the prodding horns of it's own supporters. It must inevitably sooner or later be smashed from the front or punctured from the rear.
 In Special Session
 Parliament meets in a special session next Tuesday to pass bill instituting a commission to delimit the Ulster boundary. If the Tory house of lords defeats the measure, an, unlikely but possible development, an election auto matically would be precipitated.
 Otherwise the regular session of par liament wNl commence on October 2S, with the conservatives and liberals primed to attack the government on housing, unemployment and other ques- tions, in the Russian loan in particu- lar. The labor government agreed to guarantee the loan at the insistence of its own radical members after negotia- tions with the soviets had collapsed.
 The laborites realize that they arc on the defensive. They have nothing to gain from an early election, hence they have decided that, if possible, they will remain in office until spring, ac- cepting any defeats except absolutely vital ones. At the same time they will introduce in succession purely labor
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