IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2665, 22 November 1909, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

CABLE NEWS.

AIR. HALDANE’S ATTACK ON THE

LORDS

United Press Association —Copyright

LONDON, Nov. 19

Air Haldane, speaking at tlie Eighty Club, said the only tiling which would stimulate Socialism into danger in Britain was a tax on food, but- there was a third issue. Since the constitution bad become what it was no step so violent or revolutionary had been taken as negativing a Budget. The question was whether the second Chamber could be tolerated in a form in which there was virtually only a single Chamber when the Unionist party was in power.

AN ANTI-BUDGET MEETING

A large non-political meeting of auctioneers and estate agents at Cannon Street Hotel unanimously protested against the Budget’s land proposals. Viscount Hereford, speaking at Portsmouth, declared that the Budget would increase unemployment. The issue before the country was- tariff, reform, with a strong navy, versus Socialism. The Feetrade-League of Manchester has issued a manifesto detailing the circumstances of the cotton industry. It demands the maintenance of free-trade. THE LABOR TICKET. The executive committee of the Aimers’ Federation has decided that Air. Burt, Labor member for Morpeth, and Mr. Fenwick, Labor member for Wnnsbeck, cannot be exempted from signing the Labor ticket. THE HOUSING AND TOWNPLANNING BILL. (Received November 21, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 20. The Lords have agreed to the .points enumerated by Air. John Burns as vital to the Housing and Totfn-planning Bill. TRADES UNIONISTS AND THE LORDS. The Parliamentary Committee of the Trade Union Congress urges the Government, in the event of a dissolution, to give the country the long-desired opportunity of recording its judgment as to the desirability of abolishing the hereditary Legislative Chamber. MR. BALFOUR CORRECTS A AIIS- ' STATEAIENT. Air. Balfour, in a letter to a correspondent, says that- a tax on raw cotton was never contemplated. Such a tax would evidently violate the fundamental principles of fiscal reform. NORTHUMBERLAND AIINERS’ ACTION. The Northumberland miners are heartily supporting Alessrs Burt and Fenwick. [Air. Thos. Burt, AI.P. for Morpeth since 1874, and Mr. C. Fenwick, AI.P. for Wansbeck since 1885, two veteran. Labor members, were practically boycotted by the Trades Union Congress because they declined to fetter themselves by subscribing unreservedly to its- programme, and the executive of tlie Aliners’ Federation, as will be seen from another cable message, is endeavoring to coerce them."J RUMORED LIBERAL AND SOCIALIST ALLIANCE. The “Standard” reports that negotiations are proceeding for a modus vivendi between the Liberals and Socialists at the election. THE WEST LEEDS ELECTION. The Liberals of West Leeds are inviting’Air. T. E. Harvey, Warden of Toynbee Hall, to contest the constituency. [Toynbee Hall is one of the most famous of the ■ University extension “settlements,’? and is situated in Whitechapel. Mr. T. E. Harvey lias been AVarden of Toynbee Hall- since 4906. He was born at Leeds in 1875. He was educated at Bootham School, York; Yorkshire College, Leeds; Christ Church, Oxford; Universities of Berlin and Paris. Assistant in the British Museum 1900-4, Resident of Toynbee Hall 1900, Warden of Chalfont House 1900-4, Deputy AVarden of Toynbee Hall 1904-6, member London County Council 1904-7, member Central (Unemployed) Body since 1906.]