LABOUR CONGRESS

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 170, 6 April 1923, Page 7

LABOUR CONGRESS

DECISIONS OF BRITISH PARTY MOVEMENT FOR CAPITAL LEVY 4 By Telegraph.—Press association. —Copy right. London, April 4. At the Labour Conference, Scottish members submitted a motion recommending that Labour members of the House of Commons should not accept the hospitality of political opponents at public dinners or social functions, except when it was necessary for the Leader of the party to nieet.the King on State occasions. After considerable discussion the conference, by 93 votes to 90, passed the motion, ■ after deleting all the wards after “functions.” Mr. R. C. Walhead, the chairman: I thought revolution was knocking at the door! A motion demanding tho immediate socialisation of land produced such heated differences of_ opinion that it was referred to the National Council. A resolution in favour of the abolition of Cabinet Government and the substitution of Government by committee with Ministers as chairmen, was also referred to the council for examination, after Mr. Charles Trevelyan, M.P., had urged that the party should not substitute Parliamentary chaos and anarchy, for Government tyranny. "We don’t want,” he said, “a pledge-bound, oath-riddeui party. When wo got into power we want the vital representatives who think, to act for themselves." It was resolved that the Labour Party should relentlessly press forward tho movement for a capital levy —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.