BRITISH LABOR PARTY

Evening Star, Issue 19062, 3 October 1925, Page 4

BRITISH LABOR PARTY

ANNUAL CONFERENCE NATIONAL FINANCE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, October 1. The conference adopted the executive’s resolutions in favor of the, public ownership of the banking and credit system, and also national finance. It passed resolutions reaffirming its opposition to food taxes and protective tariffs, demanding vigorous steps to increase taxation on accumulated wealth and excessive incomes, and a. largo and speedy reduction of the National Debt. Replying to criticism that the resolution did not refer to a levy on capital, Mr Snowdon said that the resolution did not repudiate the principle of the levy, but asked the next Labor Government to deal with tho problem of the redemption of tho National Debt, whereupon one critic described the resolution as the burial service of the capital levy, and appealed to the conference to stop the rot in the Parliamentary Party and its drift towards Liberalism.—A. and N.Z. Cable. ELECTION OF OFFICERS. DECISION TO SUPPORT MINERS. LONDON, October 1. Air Pugh, the ironworkers’ rcprescii in live, a moderate, was chosen as chairman of next year’s Labor Congress. All the prominent officers, including klr Clynes, Mr Cramp, and Mr Jowett, ■“were re-elected to the party’s executive, except Mr Sidney Webb. The unsuccessful candidates included Miss Margaret Ron ifield. Not a single Red candidate secured election. The congress decided to support the coal miners’ interpretation that the July truce guaranteed the ruling wage. —Sydney ‘Sun’ Cable. CONFERENCE CONCLUDED. MINERS AND COMMUNISM. LONDON, October 2. (Received October 3, at 11.10 a.m.) The Labor Conference concluded with tho chairman declaring that they bad disappointed all those who wanted to see trio conference prove a fiasco. The movement seemed to him more solid than ever. As the delegates dispersed a number sa.ng the ‘ Red Flag.’ In tho course of a debate Mr Herbert Smith (president of the Miners’ Federation) declared; “When the miners adopt Communism they can seek me. 1 do not believe in it. it cannot got ns anything.” He declared that the miners would vote twelve to one against Communism. They could fight without Communists. “ You who talk revolution,” he said, “ have not as much fight in you as a spaniel dog. The miners are fighting for a better wage for everybody.” It is announced that Sir Robert Williams has been elected chairman of the new executive, and Mr F. 0. Roberts, M.P., vice-chairman. Mr Ramsay MacDonald, in an interview, said that be was delighted with the conference. It had been a great consolidating conference. They had removed mountains of misunderstanding, and tho industrial and political sections of the party were now better co-ordi-nated than ever.—Renter.