Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-25
MACDONALD PICKS
CABINET OF 10 men
Four Conservatives, Four La
boriteS and Two Liberals
Are Selected.
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urged the Trades Union Congress and
the Labor party to organize an imme-
date campaign for general resistance.
Labor party has been called for FRIDAY
afternoon, when it may disapprove OF
the national government
Mr.. Macdonald was expected to re-
sign his position as party leader.
A statement which is being sent 70
all branches of the Independent Labor
party throughout the country says:
with the formation Of q national
government under the leadership OF
Ramsay Macdonald, the attack on So
cial services and on wages enters on
new intensified phase.
The declared intention Of the new
government ruthleSSly to cut down. on
the plea of financial stringency, unem-
ployment allowances and other forms
of essential social expenditure and the
salaries and wages of civil servants and
teachers while leaving the burden oil
war debts payments and the new wal
expenditure Of E1O8, 000. 900 sterling un-
touched, will be the signal for re-
newed onslaught on the wages OF work
ers by employers in all industries.
Macdonald and members of the late
government who are associated with
him have surrendered to the dictates
of financiers, who have skilfully ex-
plotted q financial crisis Of their own
creation for achievement of the political
and economic ends they long have been
pursuing.
Trust Betrayal Charged.
1.-THE actions of these Labor ministers
involve not only violation OF the con-
stitution and the program Of the Labor
party which brought them into power,
but gross betrayal of the trust which
has been placed in them by the masses
of workers and which justifles their
immediate Reputation by the Labor
movement.
"The Independent Labor party con-
graduates the general council OF the
Trades Union Congress on its steadfast
refusal at q most critical moment to
accept the economy proposals placed
before Il by the late government, which
recalled a section Of the ministers to
their real allegiance and gave effective
lead to the general resistance.
9TH Independent Labor party, both
in Parliament and in the country. will
continue Fundamentally to oppose all
policies which seek to achieve econ
onlies at the expense Of social services
and by reducing wages and will co-op-
crate In relentless opposition to the
policies of the new government.
Campaign Is Urged.
ut urges the council OF the Trades
Union Congress and the Labor Party
immediately to organize and carry
through a nationwide campaign for
general resistance which viii unite the
full strength of the working class move
ment. both politically and industrially.
in opposition to the proposals Of the
new government end to new attacks on
wages which will follow.
THE Independent Labor Party be-
lieves that resistance to attack Is not
enough. Attempts of the servants Of
financial interests In the new govern
ment to stabilize the lettering structure
of capitalism by further attacks on the
standard of life of our people must be
q signal for renewed effort TO capture
the power for Socialist purposes.
The working classes can and must be
rallied unitedly in the great struggle for
the Socialist program which alone holds
the solution Of problems which confront
us In that struggle the Independent
Labor Party. es always. viii cooperate
with renewed vigor and strength"
The new government is reasonably
certain Of majority Of 100 In the House
OF Commons.
Mr.. Macdonald viii broadcast his
first detailed statement IN q country
wide hookup tonight.
The British public evidently has
taken at full value the prime minister's
statement that 'the crisis is over" for
in contrast to yesterday Downing street
was almost deserted today.
Arthur Henderson. retiring foreign
minister, was at work early to clear
up final tasks before turning over the
post to his successor.
It was revealed that Parliament can
be convened in 80 hours, under special
emergency arrangement made before
the Summer recess started. Instead of
seven-days' notice in the of1cial London
Gazette being necessary, constitutional
machinery has been set up to enable
the Commons to be called by procla-
nation.
1t is expected that organization Of the
government and drafting Of economy
legislation will require at least q week,
however, and that Parliament will not
go into session until the second week
in September.
Finance Dictatorship Charged.
The Daily Herald, taking q strong
stand against the government, said the
had fatty refused to grant further
credit to the Bank Of England unless
drastic economies were made either in
the administration or in actual pay
ments Of the unemployment insurance
fund.
Saying this knowledga contributed to
the. breach in the cabinet, the paper
remarked:
This isn't patriotism. but acceptance
OF a dictatorship: not even Of Brit
ish bank. but of international finance
It is a blow to British prestige equalcd
only by the terms Of the Versailles
treaty"
Oficials of the Bank of England re-
fused to comment today on the Herald
story beyond brief statement to the
effect that the chief cashier regrets
he has no information to give on this
subject"
In other authoritative quarters, al
though ofieial knowledge Of any de-
mands by the Federal Reserve was de-
MED, 1t was said that 1t seemed TO be
entirely appropriate that IL American
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