London, Oct. 7.
Addressing the Labour Party] conference at Liandudno to-day and replying to critics both inside and Joutside the Party, the Premier, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, said that' the present Government had fulfilled the confidence reposed in it at the ast Elections both as regards foreign and domestic policy.
Emphasizing the world-wide nature of unemployment, he asserted that no nation working alone could cure it.
He informed his audience that the British Government had signed a tariff trace at Geneva with a view to initiating negotiations with tho} other industrial nations of the world about tariffs. If these negotiations were not successful, he added, [the Government would be free to take other steps.
Mr, MacDonald declared _that British industry had lost opportunities placed in its way by the Government not because of high taxation and high wages but be-[cause businessmen were not able to adapt themselves to the conditions suggested by Sir William Morris, the well-known motor-car manufac: turer, to. make their motto of society not "Government on busiines?" but "Business on bust limes" if they wished to pro: duco profitable results, The Premier stated that the Government had decided that its mest important work was to put the [population on the land. They had produced schemes of organization. They would produce legislation making provision for thousands of families and also for the better working of forests and the small Iholings attached to forests.
An amendment moved by Mr. JJames Maxton, the Labour M.P. Yor Glasgow, criticising the failure Jof the Government to pursue al Socialist policy especially in regard to unemployment was defeated by Jan overwhelming majerity—Reuter,
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