The Archive · 1924

1. L. P. Special Effort Fund

Later.

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald has open-fed the Independent Labour Party's. special effort fund in view of the possibility of a general election with a donation of £100.

Later.

Mr. Lloyd George, addressing an audience of 10,000 peo-lay at Leicester, accused Ramsay MacDonald of abuse of his prerogative in putting the country to the expense.and - inconvenience election, instead of consent-to an inquiry into the "Workers Weekly" ease. He declared that a kang of extremists had bullied th: Goveroment into interfering with justice in the "Workers' Weekly" The same gang had bullied them into a guaramee to Russia.

Concluding, the ex-Premier asked: "If the Government cannot restrain wild men now, when failure to restrain them means defeat, wha' onl the' Government: do-it they lad the majority and were able to defy the Liberals, the Conservatives and everybody else?"—Reuter.

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