Rescue Party

The hisses, boos and jeers received by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald from his coal-miner constituents at Seaham (TIME, Jan. 28) were really too ominous, decided the Marquess of Londonderry last week. As all London knows, it is Lord and Lady Londonderry who have made life worth living for Scot MacDonald since he broke with his lifetime Labor friends to found the "National Government." Without the heartening balls and banquets in his honor at Londonderry House, Widower MacDonald would be a lonely old man indeed. Last week Lord Londonderry, potent coal tycoon that he is, moved to save Seaham for Ramsay in the next election.

Disgruntled jobless miners rubbed their eyes, grinned at the prospect of jobs at good wages. In Seaham they read announcements that Londonderry Collieries Ltd. has decided to spend $1,250,000 at Seaham Harbor putting up a huge plant for extraction of oil from Seaham coal. "This will mean jobs for 1,500 additional men in the mines," said a Londonderry executive. By rushing construction of the great plant at a speed unprecedented in Britain, Londonderry expects to open it in March, the General Election being expected shortly afterward.

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