LABOUR DIFFERENCES IN GREAT BRITAIN

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 10359, 23 April 1930, Page 3

LABOUR DIFFERENCES IN GREAT BRITAIN

Stormy Scene at Conference. PARTING OP THE WAVS. London, April 21 At the annual conference of the independent Labour Party at Birmingham a resolution was carried that the party must preserve its separate existence as a Parliamentary group, even to the extent of voting against the Government. The conwas the stormiest yet. one section shouting against another. One of the rowdiest scenes occurred when the divided elements discussed the suggestion that the party should stand alone in its Parliament purpose of advancing Socialism. The opponents of this were asked how it was imagined that a “small group of divinely chosens in the House of Commons, led by Mr Maxton, was going completely to change society without the help of the Labour Parliamentary Party. Delegates stamped and shouted and speakers only proceeded with difficulty. The Daily Herald editorially declares the policies that continue separate may need separate parties, fhe paper hoped not, for there was something tragic in the prospect of a disintegration of the working class movement, whose unity thus far was an exampple to Europep. “The Independent Labour Party is at the parting of the ways,” it -says, “but refuses to see that the ways do part." ' Incidentally the conference endorsed the action of Mr J. Maxton, Labour M.P. for Bridgeton, Glasgow, in connection with unemployment insurance, because it considered that the Bill did not sufficiently increase the benefits.