BRITISH LABOUR

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 September 1933, Page 5

BRITISH LABOUR

T.U.C. PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS ■ ■ DICTATORSHIPS DENOUNCED [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] (Recd. September 5, 1 p.m.) LONDON, September 4. The sixty-fifth Trades Union. Congress opened at Brighton, admittedly at a crucial stage in the history of organised Labour. The speeches -were practically unanimous in denouncing political dictatorship in various European forms.. Mr A. G. Walkden, in a presidential address, expressed the opinion that the classes who feel their dominance

is slipping away, are making a determined effort to re-establish it. Democracy was being assailed because it was successful, not because it had. failed. Fascism everywhere was antiParliamentarian and fanatically antiSccialist, exploiting patriotism and the enthusiasm of the generation which v had grown up since the War. Mr Walkden appealed to young people not to be led away by •flashy, ; new movements, whose goal was pol- •' itical dictatorship, culminating in State absolutism, which denies free ’ ’ voluntary organisation; the right to exist. ' ’ PARLIAMENTARY LEADERSHIP. LONDON, September 3. Mr. A. Henderson’s election has revived speculation as .46; the Labour Party, leadership. Sir Stratford Cripps has lately been strongly bidding for the leadership. The “Daily Mail” expresses the opinion that he ;is the most dangerous rival of Mr. Henderson, who, for the present, is expected to .concentrate on the promotion of a’disarmament con- ‘ vention, and on improving. Labour’s organisation. According to the “News-Chronicle’s” political correspondent, Mr. Henderson’s election definitely does not raise the question of his succeeding Mr. Lansbury, as leader of the Labour Par* liamentary Party.