BIG LABOUR VOTE 10 APPLY SANCTIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 234, 3 October 1935, Page 7

BIG LABOUR VOTE 10 APPLY SANCTIONS.

UPROAR AT MEETING. British Movement Sharply Divided. ATTACK ON LEADERS. United Press Association. —Copyright. (Received 11.30 n.m.) LONDON, October 2. Largely as a, result of Mr. A. Bevan's bitter attack on the Labour political leadership, the party conference carried the resolution favouring the application of sanctions against Italy in the present dispute, by 2,168,000 to 102,000 votes. Mr. Bevan's speech was an impassioned complaint that tlio trade unions had been badly treated by the politicians, lie adopted a disparaging tone towards Mr. George Lansbury, whom he virtually charged with disloyalty, and said Sir Stafford Cripps' resignation was a cowardly stab in the back. Mr. J. A. Clynes declared that Labour had denounced the League when it failed in its duty, and could not desert it when it resolved on firm and courageous action. It was absurd to suggest that M. Litvinoff and Mr. de Valera, who were supporting the League, were tools of the capitalists and Imperialists.

Uproar followed a delegate's question, "Can the chairman assure us that there lias been no collusion between the executive and the speakers to discredit Mr. Lansbury and Sir Stafford Cripps 1"

The chairman gave an assurance but uproar was renewed when it was announced that Mr. Herbert Morrison would close the debate.

Mr. Morrison said: "We must do nothing to weaken the League. The power of economic sanctions must not be underestimated but military sanctions cannot be ruled out. An aggressor must be made to feel that the situation is utterly hopeless."

Mr. Morrison considered that the Crown colonies should be handed over to the League, which did not mean that they would pass from British administration. ANXIETY IN GENEVA. DUCE'S FIERY BROADCAST. (Received 1 p.m.) GENEVA, October 2. Signor Mussolini's fiery broadcast is regarded with the utmost gravity. Today's events explain Baron Aloisi's anxiety to ensure the closure instead of the adjournment of the League Assembly whose resummoning is also justified. Meanwhile one minor ollicial constitutes the Italian delegation.