FIGHT FASCISM.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 233, 3 October 1933, Page 7

FIGHT FASCISM.

President's Address at British

Labour Conference.

GOVERNMENT ATTACKED

LONDON, October 2.

The assistant secretary of the National Union of Vehicle Builders, Mr. Joseph Compton, M.P., in his presidential address to the Labour Conference at Hastings, condemned the Government for what he termed its lukewarm attitude towards peace. He said Japan's military aggression was one of the blackest pages in the history of international brigandage. Britain had played a leadins part in the world's surrender of right to might.

Labour must fight Fascism fearlessly and unfalteringly. There could be no half-way house of accommodation. Labour had endeavoured to build up a democratic system of society, but found itself faced by a growing menace of dictatorship.

Trades unionists still believed in democratic methods and never would tolerate outside dictation from any source. Fascism and Communism alike challenged democratic institutions.

Labour intended to continue to spend its energies in seeking a Parliamentary majority, after which it "would execute the people's will vigorously, and determinedly lead the nations along the paths of peace and establish a living co-operative Commonwealth.