FIGHT FOR FREEDOM

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 72, 22 September 1939, Page 7

FIGHT FOR FREEDOM

LABOUR DETERMINED

MR. GREENWOOD BROADCASTS

A COMMON GOAL

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 20. Dealing in a broadcast with the attitude of the British Labour movement to the war, the Acting Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Arthur Greenwood) emphasised the Labour Party's determination to fight for freedom to the end. They all hated war, he said, but there were some things for which, if need be, they must fight. Freedom was one of those things. This war was not of British making. Herr Hitler had decided on it, and they had to fight him because "we cannot and will not tolerate the claims of individuals or States to dominate our lives through threats or the use of force." Together with the Labour movements in the Dominions and India, British Labour stood for the same ends and had one common goal—freedom of thought, expression, and opportunity irrespective of class, colour, or creed. Addressing particularly those not of the same political opinion as himself, Mr. Greenwood said that Labour would support all reasonable measures necessary to bring the war to a speedy, successful conclusion. The whole future of Labour and of all who believed in freedom depended on the successful conclusion of this great and, he hoped, final struggle. "Labour stands four-square," said' Mr. Greenwood. "It hates war, but it also hates oppression. Its mind is not clouded by- evil thoughts against the German people. It hopes to rescue them from subjection." Where Herr Hitler went millions of people were enslaved, Mr. Greenwood added. People were put in concentration camps merely because they preferred liberty to subjection. "To all who believe in democracy and freedom," he concluded, "I send the greetings of British Labour."