THE LABOUR PARTY
AND SIR JAMES ALLEN.
(IT TILIOIIAPI.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
WESTPORT, 10th May. Speaking at a Labour function here to-night, ■ Mr. H. E. Holland, M.P., chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party, referring to Sir James Allen's recent contribution to the Manchester ■Guardian, said that if the cabled reports ■were correct. Sir James Allen had misused his position as High Commissioner to propagate an inferential falsehood concerning the Labour Party.' It was utterly untrue, he added, that there, was a lack of cohesion in the Labour Party* ranks, and it was likewise untrue that a^l number of Labour members did not favour constitutional methods. There ■were only eight Labour members in the present Parliament, and ©very one of them was loyal to the policy of the organised Labour movement, which stood for constitutional methods, as a glance at the Labour platform, wouli Ishow. He said Sir James Allen's irdis'cretion would be brought before Parliament at the first opportunity, and he described jMr. Wflford's remarks in this connection as somewhat ill-tempered, mad an altogether ludicrous outburst ■which would prove a source of merriment to the Labour movement, but hardly deserving of notice otherwise.
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Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 111, 11 May 1921, Page 9
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191THE LABOUR PARTY Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 111, 11 May 1921, Page 9
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