Evening star., 1932-09-29
MACDONALD BEGINS
RESHAP|NG CABINET.
Premier Gives Home Secre.
taryship to Conservative,
Sir John Gi|mour.
Hy the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, September 20. Prime
Minister Ramsay Macdonald, who was
denounced by his Labor party COL
leagues when he formed his national
cabinet to face the British financial
crisis last October, stood firm today
despite the resignation of his colleague
of 20 years, Philip Snowden, and sew
eral Liberal cabinet members
H began Immediately to reconstruct
the cabinet on national lines. Sir John
Gi,mcur Conservative, was moved from
the pcst Of minister Of agriculture to
the home secretaryship, vacated by Sir
Herbert Samuel, leader Of the Liberals
who refused to accept the tariff pro-
posals contained in the trade agree
ments reached at the recent Ottawa
trade conference.
Maj. Walter Elliot. Conservative. was
named minister of agriculture and Sir
Godfrey Collins, Liberal, was given the
post Of secretary for Scotland, vacated
by Sir Archibald Sinclair, Liberal.
Liberal Rift Widened.
In the meantime the designations
seemed to have widened the rift in the
Liberal party which began over the
formation of the national cabinet last
Fall.
We are not cutters" Walter Runci-
man. Liberal and president OF the Board
OF Trade. told a meeting Of National
Liberal members Of the House of Com
mons. which congratulated him and
Sir John Simon. foreign secretary. for
declining to follow the other Liberals
out OF the cabinet. Thirty Of the thirty
flve so-called Simon Liberals" in the
House attended the meeting A resolu-
tion was passed declaring they would
continue to support the Macdonald
Government.
Their action set at rest rumors that
the Liberals would unite again on the
free trade issue and oppose the govern
ment.
The successor Of Lord Snowden as
lord privy seal was not named imme-
diately.
SnOwden Welcome Unlikely.
George Lansbury, lsader of the Labor
party. which Snowden left to follow
Macdonald into the national cabinet
last Fall. indicated Snowden would not
be welcomed again into the Labor fold,
although he was one of the organizers
of the party.
This has been a Tory government
from the beginning" 1ansbury said,
and the man responsible for its exist
ence, If there Is one man more respon-
sible than another, is Philip Snowden.
1t is very late in the day for him to
denounce its Tory policy"
Prime Minister Macdonald said his
governments task would not be finished
until the problems of World War debts,
and the coming world eco
nomic conference were settled
We put our hands to very big job
II months ago" he said. I'VE knew
what it meant The same determination
10 disregard all ordinary partisan inter-
est which we showed then, We show
still. We make the same appeal to the
electorate We did IL months ago, that
the nation needs non-party government
and that purely partisan considerations
would weaken our national influence in
the world and be blow to the move
ments now at work toward world re-
covery"
A Joint letter Of the Liberal ministers
who resigned declared they regarded
the Ottawa agreements as "a danger to
the best interests of the empire. a der
ogation from the powers of Parliament,
a barrier to removing restrictions on the
worlds trade: burden upon the Brit
ish people and probable cause Of in
creased unemployment and social un-
rest"