ONLY NINE FRIENDS

Evening Star, Issue 19838, 11 April 1928, Page 3

ONLY NINE FRIENDS

COMMUNISTS AND LABOR PARTY [Special to the ‘ Star.’] WELLINGTON, April 10. 'l'ho antipathy of the official La hoi Partv to its embarrassing Communistic friends was further evidenced at today’s annual conlcrcnce of the N Zealand Labor Parly. ’lherc has been in existence for two years a pledge which operates to prevent any ine.nbei of the Communist Party from belonging to tho official Labor laiH, though this could nob bar persons holding Communistic views hut not associated witH that organisation. , ~ An endeavor was made to cancel the pledge, thus making membership ot tnc Labor Party open to official Communists. Tiiis was defeated by the heiuj vote of 106 to 9. T nU Tho new president of r Partv, elected to-day, is tho Bern J. K. Archer, the Labor Mayor of Chn-t-Ch ThV’following resolution was earned concerning statements that had bee made in reference to Mr J. B°. ber ts ■ J Mr W. Bromley;— That this confe - ence regrets the unfounded statements made against Messrs Roberts and Bromlev to the effect that they had acquiesced in the payment ot 9s a cinj to single men and 12s a day to mairied men by the Government to men working on unemployed reliet work. This conference further expresses i s complete confidence in Mr Roberts and in Mr Bromley, and it thanks them for the services they have rendenn o the New Zealand Labor movement.