Cabinet Ministers' Confident of Remaining in Power: Unperturbed at Threatened Attacks over Recent Failure Quebec, Oct, 25.
The British Premier, Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, sailed for England to-
London, Oct, 27.
Mr, J. H. Thomas, Lord Privy Seal, who is the Minister in charge of the Government schemes for dealing with unemployment, in an. after-dinner speech in London night predicted that he would still be a member of the Government Gabinet last Friday at Downing Street is reported to have been'
very heated and to have become even" more so when the miners: learned that the Government's proposals were not yet ready. The' miners' officials, after receiving a Promise that the proposals would be ready on October 20 decided to call 'a national delegate conference for November 5 with a view to deciding how to consult the men in the coal-four years hence.
Mr. Philip Snowden, Chancellor! the Exchequer, speaking earl in the day at Sheffield, said that if the Labour Government was permitted to remain in office for four years they would appeal to the country confident of their return not merely to office but to power.
This is the spirit in which Ministers will meet Parliament, which reopening on Tuesday, October 29. They are unperturbed by their lopponents* outcry against their failure" amongst other things to deal with unemployment, the figures for which are increasing week by week, and by the bitterness of their Left Wing supporters over the continuance of defeats in the adminis-ration of unemployment insurance.
Tt is Miss Margaret Bondfield, Minister of Labour, the first woman to become a Cabinet Minister in Great Britain, who will have to bear the brunt of the attack.
Her Labour critics demand that if Mr, J. H, Thomas cannot find work for all, she must find maintenance for the workless.
Even apart from the above mentioned problems Parliament is assured of a full programme till Christmas, Precedence willie given to the Widows' Pensions Bill, which will provide. pensions for lover half a million more widows than at present at a cost to the Treasury of about £8,000,000,0000 a.
sar, the Coalmining Industry Bill id "an Unemployment Insurance Bill, for which the Government.
'The' decision of the Conservative leaders not to move an amendment the second reading of the Widows' Pensions Bill, in spite of their outery regarding its cost, is regarded by Ministerialists as' example of their strategical dis. cretion and this is strengthening the Government into a belief that. their work during the recess has 20 strengthened their position in the country that their opponents are hesitating to exploit their opi tunities "for defeating or embarrassing the Government.
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