CONFERENCE AND CONCESSION.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 144, 20 June 1910, Page 5

CONFERENCE AND CONCESSION.

REPRESENTATIVES CHOSEN. TO SIT THREE WEEKS. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 8 a.m.) LONDON, June 19. Mr. J. R. dynes, Labour member for North-east Manchester, speaking at the Labour demonstration at Manchester, said: "A conference implies a concession. It surely means compromise. We can make no concession and cannot consent to compromise." Mr. Philip Snowden, speaking at Satnhope Dene, said: "A conference can only be justifiable by success. If the people are betrayed once more the present gene- | ration of democrats will never again have faith in any professions of democracy on the part of official Liberalism." Mr. Bonar Law, M.P., speaking >it "West Hartlepool, said that whatever changes were necessary could only come by that evolution through which our Parliamentary institutions had grown, making the Constitution so flexible and strong. The conference will compose Mr; Asquith. the Earl of Crewe, Mr. Lloyd George, and Mr. Birrell. representing the Government, and Mr. Balfour, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Cawdor, and Mr. Austen Chamberlain the Opposition. It is hoped that the presence of Mr. Birrell will reassure Nationalists, and that Earl Cawdor's presence will reassure the Conservatives. It is expected that the conference will last three weeks. There will be no chairman. The "Times" says that there being no limitation or conditions it looks hopeful for a working compromise. Several Radicals have tabled questions in the House of Commons to pin Mr. Asquith to little or no concession.