Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-31
LABOR|7ES CRUSH
BALDWIN CONTROL
IN BRITISH VOTING
Power in Commons May Pass
to Ramsay Macdonald
Through Coalition.
CONSERVATIVES LOSE
MAJORITY OF 1876 SEATS
Prime Minister, Lloyd George and
Snowden Are Re- Elected-Lady
Astor Barely Wins.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 31.-The Baldwin
government, which has ruled England
for the past five years, was defeated in
the general elections of yesterday.
The Labor party held 281 seats in
the House of Commons at $50 O'Clock
this evening with Al seats out of a
total of 615 still to be heard from. The
Laborites needed ~ seats out of these
al to obtain a clear majority.
The standing follows: Labor, 281;
Conservatives, 236; Liberals, SO;
others, 7.
It was impossible for the Conserva-
tives to reach the Labor figures, thus
making it certain that this will be the
first time that the Labor party has
the largest representation in Parlia-
ment. Even the Conservative and
Liberal total was only five more than
the Laborite figures
David Lloyd George, one-time pre-
mier and Liberal leader, was looked
upon as apparently holding the key to
the situation, since the Liberals were
holding the balance Of power.
Labor Makes Best Showing.
The Labor showing was the largest
in its history. At the time it held
power in 1923. supported by the Liber-
ais, it had 191 votes. while the Lib
erals had 159 and the Conservatives 259.
The Labor party showed strength all
over the country, not confining itself
to any one section. Reports of Labor
gains came from Lancashire through
the industrial section, through the mid
lands and from the eastern and western
agricultural centerS.
The three leading figures in Britain's
political life, Stanley Baldwin, the Con-
servative prime minister; David Lloyd
George, the Liberal leader, and Ramsey
Macdonald, Labor leader. had been re-
elected
Premier Baldwin was reelected from
Bewdley worcestershire, with plural
ity of 14,018.
his own constituency of CarnarVon,
Wales, by wide margin, the vote being
as follows: Lloyd George, 16,647; ].
Bowen Davies, Conservative, 1913, and
Thomas AP. Rhys, Labor, 4,53e.
Three in Family Elected. ESQ,
Maj Gwilym Lloyd George, son Of
the former Liberal premier, won an
other victory for the Liberals over the
Conservatives by capturing the Penn
broke seat in Wales in a three -cornered
fight. Maj Lloyd George was the sec
ond of Mr.. Lloyd Georges children to
be returned. The Liberal leaders
daughter, Megan Lloyd George, also
was victorious.
One more of the big political person.
alitieS came in with the reelection of
Philip Snowden, financial genius of
the Labor party and former chan
cellor of the exchequer, in Yorkshire.
There were eight women in the re-
Gently dissolved Parliament, but al
ready today at least 10 were in the
elected on the Labor ticket. The women
returned. thus far, were the American
form heiress, Lady Astor whose plu-
rality was cut to bare oil, and the
Countess of Iveagh, who also was re-
elected.
The Laborite women members elect
ed were Ellen Wilkinson, Margaret
Bondf1eld, Susan Lawrence, Lady Gym
thia Moseley. Mrs. Mary Hamilton and
Miss E Picton Tuberyille. Megan
LLOYD George was returned as a Liberal,
while the Duchess of Atholl, ConSerya-
tive. was elected in the Kinross division,
Scotland.
Chamberlain Escapes Defeat.
The poll was replete with surprises.
Four members of the government suf-
fered defeat, Sir Arthur Steel-Mait-
land, minister of labor, and three
others not of cabinet rank. In an
cestral constituency of Birmingham,
west Sir Austen Chamberlain, foreign
minister, eked through with only so
votes. He demanded a recount, but the
recount only reduced his majority
to 43
Cabinet ministers returned to the
Commons included Sir VIZ Joynson-
Hicks, home secretary; Sir Austen
Chamberlain, foreign secretary; Col. l..
C. M. S. Ame<y, dominion affairs and
the colonies; Sir l.. Worthington Evans,
war secretary; Sir Samuel Hoare, air
secretary; Sir p Cunliffe-LiSter, presl-
dent of the board of trade; Lord
Eustace Percy, president of the board
of education; Neville Chamberlain,
minister of health. The parliamentary
undersecretary of foreign affairs. not
of cabinet rank, G. Locker -Lampson,
was reelected.
The Communists Jared badly. Their
principal candidate, Shapurji Saklat-
vala. fiery Parsee from Bombay, lost in
North Battersea to the Laborite Sanders
in a four -cornered fight. Oliver Bald
win, Socialist son of Premier Baldwin,
was elected as Labor member in Dudley,
Worchester He captured the seat by
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