LABOUR FEUD

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 191, 15 May 1928, Page 6

LABOUR FEUD

AFRICA

NEW PARTY TO BE ESTABLISHED (United Service.) Cape Town, May 13. Colonel Creswell, Minister of Defence in the South African Alinistry, is issuing a manifesto, probably to-mor-row, announcing his decision to cut the Gordian knot in the long-standing Labour Party feud by the definite establislnnent of a new party on Labour principles. He bases his party on a new arrangement with the Nationalists. ■ under which his party will receive seats in the Pact Cabinet after the next elections proportional to their numbers returned at the poll. He claims to have the .support of 90 per cent, of Labour opinion in South Africa, mid blames the National Council of the Labour Party for having precipitated this final and definite breach. Colonel Creswell thus cuts himself entirely adrift from the National Council. which is the organising machine of tlie existing Labour Party. Nationalist opinion is that Hie feud could have been healed .if the National Council, operating from Johannesburg, had not manoeuvred and intrigued to secure its supremacy in the Parliamentary caucus as Labour..Parliamentarians were otherwise prepared to reconcile their differences. But the prospect of reconciliation lias now disappeared, Colonel Creswell .having taken what is regarded as an. irrevocable step, aiming to i-e-estnblish himself in the eyes of lhe British workers, who condemned his Hag policy, by his condemnation of the Semitic influences which are iviraniount in the National ' Council of the labour. Part#* .