NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 24 October 1924

24 OCTOBER 1924

Stanley Baldwin, addressing a crowded meeting at Gravesend, and referring to Preference, said he pledged himself there, as he had pledged himself before, that there would be no taxation of food if the Unionist party were returned to power.

The Earl of Balfour, Sir Robert Horne, and Sir John Gilmour, in a letter to the Editor, emphasise the importance of defeating the Socialists, and urge Unionist electors in Scotland during the present election, in all constituencies where there is no Unionist candidate, to register their votes for the Liberal nominee, and to give him all the support in their power.

Lord Birkenhead in Glasgow dealt with the Prime Minister’s grievances and the Government’s failure to implement its promises.

Herbert Asquith, speaking at Paisley, denounced the attempts of the Socialists to prevent their opponents stating their case, and said he was not going to submit to the humiliation of having the free statement and interchange of views left at the mercy of a set of unintelligent hooligans.

David Lloyd George at Pembroke declared that Liberals made far too little of the part they had played in making the Empire possible. He suggested that some day a conciliated Ireland would render to the Empire the service which was rendered by the Boers in the Great War.

The Prime Minister, speaking at Aberavon, said that neither the Coalition nor the Tory Government had ventured to face the problem of supplying houses to be let for rent as opposed to houses built by private enterprise and sold when they were built.

The Prime Minister announced at Aberavon that the third Commissioner to the Irish Boundary Commission had just been appointed.