New Britain herald., 1929-05-29
6l5 Parliamentary Seats Are Involved - Liberals Promise Work - Lady
 Astor Tired of Speeches.

London, May 2s NIGreat Brit ain, primed with weeks of campaign ing. will go to the polls tomorrow in it's first general election since October. 1924. Young women vii vote for the first time.
 When results are known King George will ask the leader of the party gaining the majority of the parliamentary seats to form | cab inet, which to all purposes will be the British administrative body for five years or until non-confidence in it is amply demonstrated.
 Involves SIS Seats
 Six hundred and fifteen parlia- mentary seats arc involved, with some 27,0O0,0o0 residents of Eng land, Scotland and Wales eligible for voting. This number includes an es- timated more than 5,000,o00 recently enfranchised women, more than i,- 500, 1000 between the ages of 2l and 25. ..u
 Three major parties, conservative, liberal and socialist are seeking con- trol. The conservatives, given . popular mandate in October. ls2%, and headed by the prime minister, Stanley Baldwin, seek continuation of their four and one-half years of power. The socialist, or labor party, led by Ramsay Mcdonald, want . labor commons majority 70 as to in- itiate the broad fundamental changes in British social and economic life which they have espoused.
 David Lloyd George. former coali' ton premier. heads the third party the liberals, which though only nesli. gibly powerful in the house ol commons, occupy key position in tomorrow's elections and subsequent political developments.
 Liberals Make PrOmises
 The liberals. alone among the three parties, have advanced | posi-. tive campaign promise, their pledge B to cut unemployment within ont year from its present huge figure to normal proportions. This they propose to do by initiation of new road building and public works. AL though the scheme. advanced by Mir Lloyd George. has been pooh poohed by opponents, it has had . consid- erable popular appeal and seemed today likely 10 cut a definite figure in the election.
 The likelihood seemed today that neither conservatives, liberals nor 70. Cialists would gain 2 majority. in which event various procedures were possible. with two of the parties uniting against the third to make 2 majority or all electing to stand b, themselves.
 In the former case the throne would designate 2 prime minister who probably would name | coali, ton cabinet.
 The liberals have given theii promise against a coalition with the laborites. Coalition of conservatives and laborites would be imposstbl. because of fundamental diffsrencei of policy. There has been increas. ing tendency in liberal circles te frowr upon a possible liberal-con- servative coalition. general belie1 being that the party's future depends upon its standing alone.
 Apathy In Campaign
 The campaign has been one oi unusual apathy. possible result. ing from the lack of issues to excite the voters. Save in . few constitu, encles where the positive personAli. ties of some of the candidates n, volved have led to scenes of en, thusiasm or antipathy, such as tn. bailiwick of Lady Astor, | casua observer might not have known q electoral campaign was in proEress
 The prime minister. Stanley Bald win. has advanced the argumsa that Great Britain has made grea progress in the last three years m, will continue to do % under con aervative leadership. He ha promised reduction in unemploy ment but says 1t will be spread eve three or four years. Some slight ex tensions in "safeguarding" - tn British name for a form of protec tive tariff-but not enough to creat q general tariff policy, also have bee promised.
 The liberals. aside from thei pledge of immediate reduction c unemployment, have held forth fo removal Of artificial barriers to trad at home and a determined attemp to remove barriers abroad, wit world disarmament at the forefron Of it's program.
 The labor platform is that C transformation Of capitalism int socialism. with the party askin power to lay the foundations of new social order and to relieve in mediate distress.
 Promises of Liberals
 Among its items of foreign polio are those of resumption of diple matic relations with Russia. abol ton of European commitment which would hamper British fret