RELEASE OF MOSLEY

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24116, 27 November 1943, Page 5

RELEASE OF MOSLEY

VIEWS OF LABOUR. PARTY MOTION OF DISAPPROVAL DEFEATED (N2. Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, Nov. 25. The Parliamentary Labour Party, at a crowded private meeting in tne House of Commons, to-day, discussed the release of Sir Oswald Mosley and defeated a resolution his release by a majority of 10 This is somewhat of a triumph for th(= Home Secretary (Mr Herbert Morrison), states the political correspondent of the Press Association. . *. The party, after a lively discussion, passed the following resolution? The party appreciates the widespread concern created by the release of Sir Oswald Mosley, concern which can only be allayed by a full debate in Parliament, but it is of the opinion that the administration of regulation 188, whica must necessarily be of a judicial character, should be kept free from party political controversy.” The meeting made it clear that thj motion in no way limited the aright

members to express theih individual views during the forthcoming debate. The “Daily Express” reports thatlo Conservative members have tabled ft motion demanding reconsideration of regulation 188 and calling for those at present detained under the regulation to be brought to trial, “The hubbub is a healthy sign/’ say« the “Manchester Guardian.” comment* ing on the protests against the release of the Mosleys. “It has shown that the Ordinary people have extremely strong feelings about anything which remotely savours Fascism. “The mood of 1040 remains and any form of appeasement, domestic or foreign, will rouse the country, Nobody, of course, thought that the Govment was actually weakening in its hostility to Fascism. What the people were afraid of was that the Government was doing something that might lead others who do not understand ih» British temper to think that it might be. “No harm will be done to our national credit by public demonstrations and resolutions of censure-like that off the National Council of Labour. They are evidence of a keen fighting spirit, intolerant, perhaps, but desperately earnest.” The executive of the Mineworkers’ Federation, at a meeting in London, unanimously passed a resolution protesting against the release of Sir Oswald Mosley and requesting that he be reinterned. The Belfast branch of the National Union qf_ _ Railwayman has passed ft resolution . asking the . executive com-mittee-tn immediate representations to the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers’ Union and other unions concerned with transport, witha view to calling a general strike of all transport workers until Sir Oswald Mosley- is again imprisoned.

PROTEST AGAINST RELEASE

N.Z. FEDERATION OF LABOUR (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 26. The secretary of the Federation of Labour (Mr F. D. Cornwell) said today that the federation had cabled a strong protest to the Home Secretary (Mr Herbert Morrison) against the release of Sir Oswald and Lady Mosley. The Wellington Trades* Council today passed a resolution asking the national executive of the Federation of Labour to cable the British Trades Union Congress supporting the protest against the release of Sir Oswald and Lady Mosley, and asking that it take steps to have the Government make representations to Britain through the High Commissioner (Mr W, J.‘ Jordan). Mr F. P, Walsh, president, in the course of a statement, said: “We cannot believe that the conditions of Sir Oswald Mosley’s detention are so arduous that his release is necessary. We cannot believe that the conditions of his release will prevent him conniving to continue the evil work he began. Even if these things were so, We hold his liberty is for the bar of civilisation to decide. We, as members of the common people, hold this man guilty. We demand his detention. We decry his release as a precedent and an encouragement to those other criminals guilty of crimes against civilisation and humanity.” , At the biennial conference of the New Zealand Waterside _ Workers’ Union yesterday, tKe following resolution was moved by the president (Mr J. Flood) and carried: “That this conference of the New Zealand Waterside Workers’ Union supports the protest of British workers against the release of Sir Oswald Mosley.”