18 MAY 1929, page 2

The Star Of Socialism On The Wane Trade Union "

tyranny " in Australia has been broken where this was least to be expected. In the Queensland elections last Sunday the Socialist Government suffered its first reverse for......

* * Reparations When We Write, The Issue Of The

Reparations Conference is still in the balance. The - general effect of the last week has been to concentrate on the real question—how much can Germany pay without damage to her......

Mr. Ramsay Macdonald's Address Mr. Maedonald's Election...

shorter than Mr. Baldwin's. He refers first (as is natural in his new constituency of Seaham) to the distress in the coal- fields. "The general strike of 1926," he says, was the......

Improving Trade The Improvement Of Trade Is Undoubted....

the exports of British goods were £4,976,000 more than in April, 1928. It is true that there were two more working days this year, but a comparison of the first four months of......

The White Paper The Government Have Issued A White Paper

containing memoranda on the ,Liberal scheme for "conquering unemployment." The memoranda are made in the names of various Ministers. There is also a_ memorandum on the finance......

We Must Add That There Is Substance In The Criticism

that the Government ought not to have published at the public expense memoranda which are necessarily ex pane statements. It is true that Liberal speakers and writers acted most......

Mr. Macdonald Promises Treasury Grants For Slum...

"must be reduced" and larger benefits for mothers are offered from the National Health Insurance funds. Under the head of Education he proposes to reduce the size of elementary......