INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY.
PODMORE»S SENTENCE DISCUSSED. ' (UHITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BT K.HCIBIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (Received April 22nd, 10.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 22. The Independent Labour Party's conference carried Mr J. Maxton's proposal regretting that the Home Secretary, _Mr J. R. Clynes, had refused to exercise his constitutional power of reprieving William Podmore, in which case a large volume of public opinion urged such action. The resolution added that the Independent Labour Party had repeatedly declared in favour of the abolition of capita] punishment, and that this was an opportunity of avoiding useless barbarity. Tho text of the resolution was telegraphed to Mr Clynes. . A resolution' was also carried deploring the failure of the Government to make adequate provision in the Budget by a drastic taxation of the wealthy for the money required for social services.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19910, 23 April 1930, Page 11
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