LABOUR FIGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 234, 4 October 1927, Page 7

LABOUR FIGHT.

A SLOGAN THE ISSUE.

Chief Topic Of Debate At Blackpool. "SOCIALISM IN OUR TIME." (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 9.30 a.m.) LONDON", October 3. The chief fight at the Labour party conference at Blackpool centres around the slogan, "Socialism in Our Time."

Already Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald has bespoken caution lest impetuosity defers Labour's ultimate triumph.

Nevertheless, many leaders are chiding the executive for not having the framework of their policy ready. The executive will meet this criticism by an amendment urging that social reorganisation should be the main plank in the platform at next election.

When the delegates assembled at Blackpool and the conference opened the first business was raised by the question why the Teachers' Labour League was disaffiliated.

Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald explained that teachers are a body they were anxious to have within the party, but the individuals in the league were so openly Communistic that they had no option but to disaffiliate them.

The conference then gave attention to Mr. Havelock Wilson, arising out of the executive's report, regretting the Seamen's Union's secession.

Mr. Crick asked why the union was not disaffiliated. No man had done more damage to political Labour than Mr. Havelock Wilson.

Mr. Herbert Smith moved to omit the regret because, he said, the seamen were better out than in the movement. It looked as if the executive had been attending a prayer meeting.

Mr. Arthur Henderson, M.P., said in view of what recently happened, the* executive, in deference to the conference's wishes, would withdraw the regret expressed.

The afternoon was devoted to secret discussions of the serious state of the party's finances notwithstanding that the affiliation fees had been doubled.

U.S. CONVENTION.

Workers Desire Restoration Of Beer. EVILS OP PROHIBITION. (Received 12.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, October 3. The 47th convention of the American Kedcration of Labour, under the president, Mr. W. Green, has opened at Los Angeles.

The outstanding interest is contained in the report-of the Executive Council, which advocates a return to beer and the introduction of the five-day week. In three conventions Labour has {minted out the deplorable conditions which had come from the enforcement of the Volstead Act.

"We contended that 2.75 per cent of beer would bring about true temperance," says the executive, which declares that the conditions are steadily growing worse.

Wholesome beer, it states, could be introduced without interfering with the Eighteenth Amendment. — (Sydney "Sun.")