6 OCTOBER 1928, Page 2

- On Wednesday Mr. MacDonald :explained and. praised the'. Sixty,five

" artieleS of the programine:. ,This , vast scheme is not a _programme. for. any _particular election, but a sort of. evolutionist text-book which would take generations. to' bring . to. fruition.- -Mr.. MacDonald really admitted . this, but he laid:particular emphasis. on afew subjects which will no_ _doubt :emerge. before -the General Election as the only programme for immediate use— unless, of course, events or the Government, drive the thoUghts of Labour into some wholly new channel. He 'inade it plain that a Labonr GoVernment would at once 'repeal the Trades Disputes Act and the Eight Hours (Mines) Act. The mines, transpOrt, power, land and life ' insurance wOuld.be " publicly owned "—a recent blessed word in place of " nationalized." There would 'be grades of State-ownership and management, some industries being bodily taken over by the State and others being only " controlled." Relations with Russia would be restored, -plural voting would be abolished, and Labour would " support " separate Parliaments for local affairs in Seetland, Wales, and England. * * * *