DIFFERENCE OF OPINION

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 81, 5 April 1923, Page 7

DIFFERENCE OF OPINION

PROTEST AGAINST CAUCUS

NO PLEDGE-BOUND, OATH-RID.

DEN PARTY.

(UNITED MESS ASSOCIATION.— COMIUOIT.)

(AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZBALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

(Received sth April, 9.30 a.m.)

LONDON, 4th April.

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 meet the King on State occasions.

After considerable discussion the conference, by 93 votes to 90, passed the motion, after deleting all the words after ". . . functions . . ."

Mr. Walhead, the chairman: "I thought revolution was knocking- at the door!"

A motion demanding the 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, oathridden party. When we get into power we want the vital representatives who think, to act for themselves."-

It was resolved that the Labour Party should relentlessly press forward the movement for a capital levy.