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" PAGE.EIGHT # FE Pn THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1931 National Government Wins great Victory over Labor LABOR PARTY IS SWEPT AWAY BY AVALANCHE OF ~ GOVERNMENT VICTORIES Disaster to Opposition Most Complete in Britain's Re- cent Political History-- Industrial Centres Repu: diate Socialist Candidates by Overwhelming Major- ities, and Opposition Party Will be Very Small (By George Hambleton) (Canadian Press Staff Writer) London, Eng. Oct. 28.--The La- bor party was swept under an ava- lanche of National Government votes in yesterday's general elec- tion. The returns to an early hour this morning covered less than half of the total membership of the House of Commons; the remainder were not to be declared until later today. But they presaged a disaster for Labor more complete than has struck any 'political party in many Years. Rt. Hon, Arthur Henderson, their leader, is defeated. At 4 am. today the Canadian Press reported election of 287 mem- bers out of 615. The Government total was 261 and the Opposition only 24, with two Independents, The Government's majority of those elected is 235, and the Conservative majority over all in the returns to date is 156, Conservatives have gained over 100 seats and lost none. At dissolution they held 263. Re- taining only the seats they held then, the Conservatives will have an easy majority over all, counting in their huge gains of yesterday, Member after member of the old Labor Government, which gave way to the National Government last August, has gone under. Up to the present only two former Ministers of the Labor Government have been re-elected. They are Sir Stafford Cripps, whose majority was reduced from 11,324 to 429, and Rt. llon. George Lansbury, whose majority "was cut from 11,257 to 4,664. "SjLabor Loses Industrial \Midlands + Inonotonous " And Labor lost heavily in its great industrial strongholds. Seat after seat in the Midlands, in the Jmorth, went Conservative with a regularity. Birming- ham, whose 12 seats were divided "equally between Labor and the Con- servatives in the last House, is now solidly Conservative, Sheffield had five Labor members and two Con- servatives in the last House and mow they are all Conservatives. se uiverpool had six Conservatives and. five Labor members in the last House--now there are 10 Conserva- tives and one Laborite. The three Salford seats, all Labor in the last House, are now all Conservative, and one of the defeated Laborites was A. W, Haycock, a native of On- tario. we The majority of the National rnment in the next Parliament Probably will be even more over- whelming than that secured by Rt. "Hon. David Lloyd George's Coali- tion Government in 1919, and, judg- Ing from yesterday's figures, the Conservatives will control the situ- ation. The defeat of Labor had been expected generally. But no- + body expected such an overw!ielu: ing disaster for the Opposition, = Many Huge Majorities Conservative candidates, like Sir Austen Chamberlain, First Lord of "the Admiralty, whose fate had been in doubt, return with huge major- ities. In 1929 Sir Austen had a majority of only 48, yesterday it was 10,507. > > Rt. Hon. J. H. Thomas, National Labor €ecretary for the Dominions and Colonies, after a campaign in Derby which was one continuous battle with hecklers, yesterday was given a majority of 27,416 over his nearest Labor opponent. In Sutton, Plymouth, Lady Nancy Astor's ma- jority rose from 211 in 1929 to 10,204. . The Conservatives captured the two Bolton seats from Labor with respective majorities of 32,649 and 29,666. In Hendon, Middlesex, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Conserva- tive president of the Board of Trade, had a majority of 51,000. Five members of the National Cabinet were' returned with ,sub- stantial majorities = yesterday. Of the other five, two are In the House of Lords--Lord Reading and Lord Sankey. Rt. Hon. Philip Snowden did not seek re-election. Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, Conservative lead- er, was returned by acclamation on nomination day, And Prime Minis- ter Ramsay MacDonald, who has fought the battle of his life against Labor and Communist opponents at Seaham which gave him a smash- ing majority in 1929, will not know his fate until 3 o'clock this after- noon, Ministers Elected The five who were elected were: Rt. Hon, J. H, Thomas, Secretary for the Dominions and Colonies; Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert Samuel, Secretary fdr Home Affairs; Rt. Hon. Samuel Hoare, Secretary for India; Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health, and Rt. Hon. Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, president of the Board of Trade. Along with Mr. Henderson, the following members of the old Labor Government were defeated: Rt. Hon. Thomas Shaw, Rt. Hon, Her- bert Morrison, Rt. Hon. Arthur Greenwood, Rt. Hon. F. O. Roberts, Rt. Hon: R, J. Clynes, Rt, Hon, A. V. Alexander, Hon. H. B, Lees- Smith, Hon, Ernest Thurtle, Sir Charles Trevelyan, Hon. S. P, Viant, Hon, C. E. Ammon, Hon. F. P. Pethick-Lawrence, and KR: Hon Margaret Bondfield, who was defeat- ed by a woman Conservative in Wallsend. In the first night's returns not one single victory for Sir Oswald Mosley's new party nor for the Com- munists was reported. Sir Oswald, indeed, was at the foot of the polls in a three-cornered fight in the Stoke division of Stoke-on-Trent. This division was represented in the last House by Sir Oswald's wife, Lady Cynthia Mosley, who retired on account of ill-health. Yesterday Mrs. Ida Copeland, Con- servative, captured the seat with a majority over the next candidate, a Labor man, of 6,654. Little For Labor in Counties As the returns from those se which reported during the might ran on to their close, the Labor leaders could not find a single ray of light in the general gloom. The defeat of their leader, Rt. Hon. Ar- thur Henderson, stood at the head of a long, ever-growing list of La- bor losses. Worst of all from the Labor standpoint was the fact that the night's returns came from the big boroughs and the industrial north and the Midlands. The most optimistic Labor supporter could not hope for any Labor swing when the bulk of returns come pouring in from the county seats tomorrow. "Q-Boat" Hero Beats Henderson The victor over Rt. Hon. Arthur Henderson was Rear Admiral Gor- don Campbell, V.C.,, hero of the "Mystery Ship." The stalwarts of the Labor party "shadow cabinet" were overwhelmed by the Conserva- In Case You Miss the Rum Ration on Your Hunting Trip Just in case you are marooned far away from the source of supply, we suggest that sufficient and effi- cient external comfcrters "Duffle Bag." Breeches . . . . from $3.95 up Flannel Shirts . | Hunting Caps . B| Leather and Cloth | Windbreakers . -- at -- t be included in the old . from $1.25 up «ve + 31.50 «. « $6.00 up CABLE FLASHES ON RESULTS OF THE ELECTION Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George and His Daughter Megan, Both Re-Elected LLOYD GEORGE ELECTED London, Oct. 28.--Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George, whose Lib- eral party was virtually smashed in yesterday's voting, was elected if the Carnarvon district of Wales, the constituency he has represented for years in the House of Commons, MEGAN ALSO RE-ELECTED London, Oct. 28.--Miss Megan Lloyd George, daughter of the veteran Liberal leader, and a sup- "porter of. his followers against those of the National Liberals, was re-elected as member of the House of Commons for. Anglesey, Wales. MAJORITY MOUNTS London, Oct, 28.--The Nation- al government had 288 members elected and the opposition 25, a total of 313 out of 615 at 12.45 p.m. This gave the government a majority of 263 with 302 re- sults to come, LABOR LOSSES HEAVY London, Oct. 28.--The Labor party had lost 116 of its seats in Parliament shortly before noon to-day, when results from 290 districts were tallied. Of these the Conservatives gained 101 seats. LORD BURGHLEY ECTED London, Oct. 28.--Lord David Burghley, noted athlete, who was a winner at the lasts Olympic games and at the British Empire games at Hamilton last year, was elected in the Peterborough rid- ing of Northampton, He ran as a Conservative, CLEAR MAJORITY ASSURED London, Oct. 28%. --At 1 p.m. to-day the National government vag offi lly assured of a clear majority in the House of Com- mons, JEAD ALL n, Oct. 28.--The Conser- vative party secured a majority over all others combined. ANOTHER MINISTER WINS London, Oct, 28.--Rt. Hon, Sir Donald Maclean, National Liber- al, who is president of the Board of Education in the National gov- ernment, was re-elected to the House of Commons in the general election. Sir Donald was elected in a three-cornered fight in North- ern Cornwall, PREMIER'S SON WINS London, Oct. 28.--Malcom] Me- Donald, son of the prime minister, vas electeq as a National-Labor candidate in Basset Law, Notting- ham, tive tidal wave in their own strong- holds; Hon, Herbert Morrison, for- nier Minister of Transport, going down before a woman Conservative in Hackney South, At the sume time the chief Con- servative flgures in the National Government, and such of the Na- tional Liberal Ministers as had been reported were swept back to office by decisive margins, Along with them were tlie chief figures of the; old Conservative Cabinet, A typical return was the sum- mary from Liverpool. In 1929 Liv- erpool returned 6 Conservatives and 5 Labor members, Yesterday Liv- erpool elected 10 Conservatives and 1 Labor member, It was significant that the Conser- vatives made their early gains in the great industrial centres of the Midlands, where Labor normally finds its strength. The Conserva- tives, moreover, pointed out they were likely to poll still more heav- ily when the returns from the county seats come rolling in today. The result of the voting in the last general elections, May 30, 1929, was as follows: Labor, 287; Conservatives, 260; Liberals, 59; Independents, 9. Standing at Dissolution The standing at dissolution on October 7 last was: National Government: Conserva- tives, 263; Liberals, 58; National Labor, 13; Independents, 4. Total, Opposition: New Party, Total, 276. Labor Party, 267; 4; Independent, 6. Vacant, one. STAR HAS WANED RT, HON. D. LLOYD GEORGE Foriner British premier, whase i | following was yractic- ly wiped out in yesterday's RT. HON, RAMSAY MacDONALD Prime Minister of Great Britain, whose National Government won a sweeping victory at the polls in yesterday's general election and is ussured of a large majority in the House of Commons, Highlizhizs o Which Swept Labor Party Almost Ou Sweeping Victories of Na-/ tional Government Can- didates and Defeat of Opposition Leaders Bring Out Touches of Drama, Humor and Pathos London, Oct. 27.--While vast ma jorities for Government and extraordinary Con gains featured today's Brtish gen- eral election, there were scores of interesting high-lights; touches of drama, humor, pathos and hi , in the results. Many of these high- lights follow: Rt. Hon. Arthur Henderson heard the news of his own defeat over the radio at a hotel bedroom in Burn ley, which he was too ill to leave. Rt. Hon. David Lloyd Liberal leader, and his family await- ed returns until early in the morn- ing at his home in Churt, Surrey. Mr. Lloyd George said he would make no confment until the returns were complete, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Snowden, whose bitter invec- tive against his former colleagues of the Labor party was a feature of the campaign, motored with Mrs, Snowden from their country home to hear the returns in London. Oliver Baldwin, Laborite, son of the Conservative leader, Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, was defeated in the Chatham Rochester riding, in a three-cornered contest. Sir Park Goff, Conservative, won the scat with Baldwin 9,154 behind and Martin Woodroffe, New Party, far in the rear with only 1,135 votes. The latter was not 21 years old on nomination day but will be shortly. New Party, Communists Out No New Party candidate and no Communist managed to gain a seat. Sir Oswald Mosley, aggressive socialist who broke away from the Labor party, to head his own New Party and who pleaded with the electors to turn Parliament from a "Talk Shop" into a "Work Shop," was defeated in the Stoke division of Stoke-On-Trent--the: seat re- presented in the last House by his wife, Lady Cynthia, who was forced to retire on account of ill health, Earl Beatty's son, Viscount Boro- dale, captured the Peckham division of Camberwell for the Conserva- tives, turning a Labor majority of 5,505 into a Conservative leall of 8,241. The first Laborite to be returned was R: C. Charles Wallhead, who defeated Sellick Davies, a member of Sir Oswald Mosley's New Party in the Welsh riding of Merthyr. Author of several novels and well known as a social worker, Mrs. Mary Hamilton, Labor thember in the last House, was defeated in the Lancashire riding of Blackburn. To- gether with her running mate--twoe members are eleated from this rid- ing--Mrs. Hamilton lost the seat to the Conservatives. S. Saklatvala, the only Commun- ist ever to sit in the British House, was defeated in a three-cornered contest in the London borough of Battersea North, the Conservatives winning the seat from. Labor. Saklatvala was defated in 1929, and in_this contest will lose his deposit. Unable to do any campaigning because he was in jail, Christopher Flapagan, munist candidate in the Gorton riding of Manchester, went down to defeat in a three- cornered contest, E. A. Shackleton- Bailey, Conservative, won the seat from 'the sitting member, J. Comp- ton, Labor. Flanagan polled 1,000 votes. candidates servativ George, Jean Chiappe, prefect of police f Election t of Existence in Paris, watched London with a nrious eye to-night, M, Chiappe here as the guest of Scotland Yard especially. to watch the ac- tions of the London crowds. As Lancashire Goes s Lancashire goes, so goes the country has been a political axiom ion many years, The first Lanca- | shire riding to report, Ashton- | Under-Tyne, returned Col. J. Broad- i bent, Conservative In a four- | cornered contest, he secured 15652 | vo ainst 11.074 for 1. W. Gor- | 1. T. Middle- | Liberal, and running Mos- don, Labor; 2,696 for ton, Llovd Georgian 1424 for Charles Hobl | as. a member of Sir Oswald ley's New Party. Polling a vote over 4000 in ex- cess of the combined totals of his two opponents, A, Reed, Conserva- tive, gained for the government the English borough of Exeter, Lady Acland, a Lloyd Georgian Liberal, had a slight majority over the third candidate, Lieut.-Colonel - de la Haye, Labor. In the 1929 election, the riding returned an Independent, E. J. Young, Nationalist-Liberal, 1 journalist and lecturer, defeated Miss Ellen Wilkinson, Labor, and one of the 14 women members of the last House of Commons, int the fight at East Middleshorough. Miss Wilkinson was first elected in 1924, She is national organizer for the Union of Health Vice-Admiral E. A. Taylor, who won Paddington South iu October, 1930, as an Empire Trade Crusader, held the seit to-day as an. orthodox Conservative, Last year he was op- posed by a Conservative, this time by a Laborite, Miss Lucy Cox. Lord Eustace Percy, Conservative, held the Sussex riding of Hastings in the first three-cornered contest reported. He polled over twice the total of his two opponents, Miss Isobel Goddard, Labor, and T. A. Spearing, National Liberal. Lord Percy, who has held the riding for the Conservatives since 1921, was president of the Board of Educa- tion throughout the. term of the Baldwin Government, Increasing his majority from 9,511 to 33,609 Capt. Wallace, who was a Government whip in the last House, rolled up one of the biggest majorities recorded. Another Eng- lish borough, Cheltenham, also re- turned a. Government supporter with a majority almost three times as much as he received in the last election. Sir Walter Preston, Con- servative member in the last House, nse, against 5263 for Labor. Hoare Retains Riding Sir Samuel Hoare, one of the chief Conservatives in the Mac- Donald Ministry, retained his rid- ing of Chelsea, a London borough. Along with Neville Chamberlain, he was the chief participant for the Conservatives, in the inter-party negotiations that led to the forma- tion of the National Government. He became Secretary of State for India. Hon. Mary Pickford, daughter of the late Lord Sterndale, regained the .London borough of Hammer- smith North for the Conservatives by defeating the sitting Laborite, J. P. Gardner and EF. Bramley, Communist, Miss Pickford, inter- ested in bettering industrial condi- tions, was an unsuccessful candi- date in 1929. By a small majority, Sir. Staf- ford Cripps, one of the leaders of the Labor party, retained his seat of Bristol East. He was Solicitor- General in the old Labor Govern- ment and was particularly bitter against the members of 'his party that swung over to the National John Ramage, was re-elected with 22,524 votes, | ALL MINISTERS OF MAGDONALD'S PARTY ELECTED Fourteen Former Members of Labor Cabinet Are Defeated (By Canadian Press) London, Oct. 28--Every member of the National Cabinet, except Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald himself, has been re-elected to the House of Commons by a decisive majority. And Prime Minister Mac- Donald will know his fate today, The result in Seaham, where Mr. MacDonald sceks re-election against Labor and Communist opponents, will not be known 'until about 3 this afternoon, Oi the 10 members of the Nation- al Cabinet, Rt. Hon. Stanley Bald- win, Conservative leader and Lord President of the Council had al- ready been elected without opposi- tion on nomination day. - Lord Reading, Liberal Foreign Secretary, and Lord Chancellor, are in the House of Lords. Rt. Hon, Philip Snowden, Labor Chancellor of the Exchequer, did not seek re-election. Ministers' Majorities The five Cabinet Ministers elected yesterday, with their approximate majorities over thé nearest opponent were as follows: Sir Herbert Samuel, Liberal Home Secretary, in Darwen; majority Sir Samuel Hoare, Conservative Secretary for India, in Chelsea, Lon- don; majority 18,289, Rt. Hon, J, H. Thomas, Labor Secretary for the Dominions, Der- by; majority over 20,000, Rt. Hon, Neville Chamberlain, Conservative Minister of Health, Jirmingham Edgebaston; majority Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Conser- vative president of the Board of Trade, Hendon, Middlesex; major- ity 51,000. Rt. Hon, Sir, Austen Chamberlain, First Lord of the Admiralty; major- ity 10,507. Ex-Ministers Defeated Members of the old Labor Cabin- et defeated in yesterday's general election included the following: Rt. Hon, Arthur Henderson at Burnley. Hon. Herbert Morrison, Hackney South, Rt. Hon, Tom Shaw, Preston. Rt. Hon. Arthur Greenwood, Nel- son and Coline. Rt. Hon. Margaret Bondfield, Wallesend. Rt. Hon. A. V. Alexander, Shef- field," Hillsborough. Rt. Hon. J. R. Clynes, Manchester Platting. Hon. H. B. LeesySmith in Keigh- ley, Yorkshire Hon. Ernest ditch, London, Sir Charles Trevelyan, Newcastle- upon-Tyne Central, Rt. Hon. F, O. Roberts in West Bromwich. Hon, S. in' Willesden West. Hon. C. well North, Former Labor Ministers re-elect- ed included: Hon: Sir Stafford Cripps, Bristol Fast and Rt, Hon. George Lans- bury, Poplar, Bow and Bromley. Thurtle in Shore- P. Viant G. Ammon, in Camber- feated J. M. Spreull, Conservative, by 429 votes. in the former Labor Government, was defeated at Batley and Morley. The first return recorded in the British general election to-day was that of the Middlesex seat, Horn- sey. Capt. Euan Wallace, Conser- vative, held the riding in a straight fight with H. A. Franklin, Labor. The first gain by any party was reported from Salford North. In a straight fight between Conserva- tives and Labor, Ben Tillett lost his seat to J. P, Morriss, a follower of Rt. Hon, Stanley Baldwin. Morriss turned a minority of 8,105 in the last election to a majority of 11,- 880. . Irish Nuns Vote There was great to-do at Stra- bane, in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, when 30 nuns marched from their convent to mark their ballots in the British general elec- tion to-day. It was the first time Irish nuns have voted. Another branch of the Mac- Donald ministry, the National Lib- crals, gained the Yorkshire riding of Barnsley, R. J. Soper defeated the sitting Laborite, J. Potts, by 21,- Potts had a majority of 9,338. Rt. Hon, Thomas Shaw, Minister of War, in the last Labor Govern- ment, and his running-mate, E. Porter, went / down to_defeat in Preston. Two Conservatives--this riding elects two members--W. M. Kirkpatrick and Capt, A. C. More- ing swept all before them. The vote was, Moreing, 45843: Kirk- atrick, 46,276; Shaw, 25,710, and orter, 24,660. Labor had two re- presentatives from this riding in the last House. ' Ten Turner, Minister of Mines | 392 to 20,622. In the 1929 election, | NAT.-LIB. LEADER SIR HERBERT SAMUEL Leader of the Nationalist Liber- | als, re-elected by a large ma- jority in yesterday's election. Rt. Hon. L. M. C. S. Amery servative, ardent Imcpailist protectionist, was elected in D ingham Sparkbrook in party fight against G Labor, Marrying a Canadi Florence Greenwood, of Ont, Mr, Amery is this country. rom Mr. Amery was Secretary for the Dominions, 1924 to 1929 of State Sir Austin Chamberlain, one of the most prominent men of the times, won the riding of Birming- ham West for the C The vote stood: C ! 48; O, G. Willey (Lab Sir Austen is First Admiralty in the N: n- ment, Son of Joseph Chamberlain, he yet may sce the protectionist doctrines of his father placed in operation in Great DBri- tain, 1 1 G Square, in to sce the Crowds in Trafalgar London, were unable election announcements from a screen on account of the fog; so the news was dispensed to them from a portable printing press in- stalled on a truck. Newspaper Comment on the Election Landslide DAILY EXPRESS London, Oct, 28.--The Daily Bx- press, owned by Lord Beaver- brook, appeared this morning un- der a streaming banner headline declaring: "The Socialist party is wiped qut," and the paper follow- ed calling yesterday's election a "triumph for imperial protection. DAILY MAIL The Daily Mail's headline was similar. It was: Socialist party swamped by huge wave of patriot- ism." One factor in the result, the Mail said, was "the growing en- thusiasm of the electorate for a tariff." LABOR DAILY HERALD The Labor Daily Herald pre- dicted a wave ,of suffering from "full-blooded reactionary rule." "Tariffs will be put on," it. said, "prices will be forced up, social services wifl be starved and the exploitation of the people will he intensified and increased." HENDERSON'S SON BEATEN London, Oct. 28.--Arthur 'Hen- derson, Jr., son of the Labor par- ty leader, was defeated by a fairly substantial majority in Cardiff South. : Lansbury Returned Rt. Hon. George Lansbury, one of | the members of the old Labor Gov- well-known in | | ernment to | Ramsay MacDonald, was elected in | his old seat of break with Premier Jow and Bromley, , London, In a straight with D. LL. R. Guthrie, Con- vative, the former Commissioner 'orks won the riding by 4,664 hley, Rt. Hon. H. B. Lees- former member of the La- sovernment, was defeated: by : irly substantial majority. "The vote stood, Capt. G. S Watt (Conservative), 19,079; TLees«Smith, 13,192, and W. J. C. Briggs, Na- ional-Liberal, 9.044. 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