LABOUR & COMMUNISTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 October 1928, Page 5

LABOUR & COMMUNISTS

HOMELAND REJECTION BY OVERWHELMING VOTE (Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received October 2, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 1. “Any attempt to unite Labour forces with the decadent remains of Liberalism is fore-doomed to failure. Labourites are solely aiming at Socialism to which other parties are violently opposed, consequently a coalition combination is impossible,” said Mr G. Lansbury, when presiding at the Labour Party Conference at Birmingham. He declared that Communists had entered the field against Labour, both politically and industrially, and were accepting the theory of organisation of action in foreign labourism. They were, therefore, unlikely to rejoin the movement, until it was altered to the Communist policy. The. Conference passed a resolution, by an overwhelming majority, against the admission of Communists to the Party’s ranks. George Davis, representing the Miners’ Federation, declared that the Parliamentary Party had been lax in hunting people the movement. The I.L.P. was called lip. There were political cats -with their heads in the Labour Party, getting all possible, while the Communists had them by the tails.

The Conference’s' -refusal to refer back the portion of the report on the Simon Commission enabled Mr. Ramsay MacDonald to refer to the Indian as the “bottom dog,” and the necessity for not allowing the Nationalists to prejudice his case.

INDIAN COMMISSION.

RUGBY, October 1.

The appointment of the Indian Commission, under the chairmanship of Sir John Simon, was the subject of a hostile motion,■ introduced at the Labour Conference at Birmingham to-day, by Fenner Brockway. The motion waa rejected by an enormous majority of two million nine hundred and fiftynine thousand card votes against one hundred and fifty thousand. In the course of the discussion, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Labour Leader, emphasised the democratic character of the Commission. He said that the Labour representatives on the Commission would do their best to build a golden bridge for India, which would make India captain of her own salvation.

T.U.C. CHAIRMAN

Australian Press Assn. —United Service.)

LONDON, October 1.

Mr Ben Tillett has been elected dhairman of the General Council of the T.U.C.