NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 23 October 1924

23 OCTOBER 1924

Stanley Baldwin points out in a message to the women electors that the future of their homes and their children depends greatly upon how the women of Great Britain use the power of their vote.

Lord Balfour, speaking at Peebles on behalf of the Unionist candidate, declared that even a brief experiment of Socialist State organisation would mean national disaster.

Herbert Asquith met with a hostile reception from a rowdy element at his meeting at Paisley, and was continually interrupted during his speech.

David Lloyd George spoke at Haverfordwest in support of his son’s candidature. He said it was a good thing that Labour had had an opportunity of office, if only to convince them of the impossibility of building up a great new social era in six months.

Speaking at Alnwick, Viscount Grey said the three qualities needed in public life today were sympathy, truth, and courage. The Labour Government was directed, not to inducing people to pull together, but to a class war.

Ramsay MacDonald, at Aberavon, said that Labour was making things move. That was why the other parties were so angry with Labour.

Socialists and Communists were present in large numbers at Sir Robert Horne’s meeting in Partick Burgh Hall, and created a disturbance. The stewards had to eject several of the interrupters from the hall.