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...They do not desire the freedom of the city whereby they will defraud the King or this city of any of its rights, customs and privileges. . . . They will pay their Scot, bear their lot, and so they...
Bribe or Bait? Ostentatiously humdrum in style, the two sentences italicized above were in fact the sensational nub of the King-Emperor's speech: the Labor Party's speech. The first pledges Scot MacDonald to risk the very life of his Labor Cabinet by asking Parliament to repeal the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Bill, which was passed to prevent a recurrence of Great Britain's paralyzing "General Strike" (TIME, May 10 to May 24, 1926). It has generally been expected that the Liberal Party would side against the Labor Cabinet on this issue and thus produce the Cabinet...
...Goaded, Scot MacDonald made his most important public statement in recent months. He revealed that the Labor Cabinet, dominated by Free-Trader Philip Snowden, has decided to refuse the dominion prime ministers' demand that Great Britain lay a tariff on non-Empire foodstuffs, such a tariff being intended to result in larger purchases of foodstuffs by the Mother Country from her dominions. Briefly, momentously the Prime Minister said...
Thus defiantly Scot MacDonald stated the fact that millions of Great Britain's laboring men will not stand for a tax or tariff of any sort which they think might raise the price of bread. His words were widely said to have "killed the Conference" which made no progress last week, prepared to adjourn...
Yellow Flag. Hottest criticism of the speech from the Throne came from sallow, fiery Laborite left winger James Maxton, M.P. He flayed the speech as not Socialist, accused Scot MacDonald of "running up the yellow flag of Liberalism." But a Maxton motion that the House "humbly regrets" the non-Socialist character of the Royal speech was defeated by 156 votes...