LABOUR AND THE LORDS

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21285, 3 October 1934, Page 11

LABOUR AND THE LORDS

Policv Defined j Silt STAFFORD CRH'M'S | DEFEATED i .•-'.-a ilu i-.iKib i--jiUlui:' - K.y ii.t-imi. 1 \ (Received October 3, 12.5 a.m.) 1 LONDON, October 2. Alter some noisy scenes between representatives of Sir Stafford ■ Cripps's Socialist League and the . li'iidc union s-.tlion of the Labour ! pally, the annual conference considered tiie problem of the House of Lords.

', Though Sir Stafford Cripps wa-; 'anxious to have his proposal for the ; abolition of the House of Lords : adopted, the final result of the discussion was a declaration that both 'sections of Labour had now agreed ! that a struggle against the .Hous; of l.or'is would only take place L ;it mutilated, delayed, or rejectee Socialist legislation. Mr If. B. Lee-Smith warned the • Labour party of the danger of bringing the crown into a constitutional ; struggle, as that was the very thing that would produce Fascism, which at the present time was very fa.-

i ATTACK ON FASCISM

j "VICTORY 01' (.'AI'JTAUST I REACTION" I I'KKSll)' NT'S VIEWS LONDON, October 1. The Labour party conference .opened at Southport. 800 delegates : representing mure ihan 2.000,000 : members being present. '. Mr W. R. Smith, in his presidential, address, said the triumph of ; Fascism was the greatest victory of tapitalist reaction in modern times. It constituted a disastrous blow to democracy and liberty in Centra] Europe. He declared that the working class movement in Great Britain was determined not to allow . itself to become the victim of Fas'eism. There was no place in the British national life for any semi- ' militarised political movement. ; Mr Smith referred to recent happenings in Germany and Austria as j a terrible object lesion to the workers of all lands that the rule of S force and violence in national cr international affairs would inovif- , ably lead to an explosion of rovoi hit ion or war.

RESIGNATION OK MR HENDERSON WOI.'K ink DISARM VMLNT I'O CONTI NT E RUG lIY. October L The resignation of Mr Arthur Henderson from the secretaryship of the Labour party was discus.-;ed at the conference at Southport. The chairman. Mi' W. 11. Smith, expressed deep regret at the severance of a long association, particularly as it was necessary because of Mr Henderson's ill-health. Mr Henderson, replying, said lie had concentrated all his knowledge and experience "it making the party an independent, political force. Referring to his work as chairman of Hie Disarmament Conference he declared that he had no intent ion of giving ui) the task—one of the greatest, ideals that had ever influenced their own or any other movement, of trying lo get that world agreement on this question for which they now had been •irugeiiug for three years.