IMPORTANT CHANGE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 116, 26 February 1937, Page 5

IMPORTANT CHANGE.

LABOUR POLICY IN BRITAIN.

RECONISTRUCTION PROGRAMME

(United Press Association—Copyright)

LONDON, February 25. “One of the most important steps the Labour party has taken since the Great War,” says the “News-Chronicle” commenting on yesterday’s decision of the national executive of the Labour party to go to the country next election with a short reconstruction programme, to he carried out in the lifetime of one parliament, pamely five years. A drafting committee has already been appointed to prepare the new programme, which will be submitted to the party and the public at an early date. “The decision is bound profoundly to influence the future development of tlio party’s policy,” the “News-Chronicle” adds. “This means that the appeal to the electors is henceforth to he made on a series of practical proposals instead of the policy of general socialism and nationalisation which has hitherto been the party platform.”

STATUS OF SIR STAFFORD CRiPPS DANGER OF PARTY DISUNITY. (Received This Day, 9.5 a.in.) LONDON, February 25. Tho executive of the National Labour Party postponed for a month the making of a decision on the question of expelling Sir Stafford Cripps. Letters from affiliated Labour bodies published in “The Daily Herald” reveal a wide division of opinion on the question, many holding that expulsion would lead to serious disunity.