HOMELAND LABOUR PARTY

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 February 1937, Page 7

HOMELAND LABOUR PARTY

CONFERENCE DECISIONS FIVE-YEAR PUN [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN.—COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, February 25. “One of the most important steps the Labour Party has taken since the Great War,” says the “News* 'chronicle,” commenting on yesterday’s [decision of the national executive of Labour Party to go to the country next election with a short reconstruction programme, to be carried out in the lifetime of one Parliament, namely five years. A drafting committee has already been appointed to prepare the new programme, which will be submitted to the party and the public at an earlj T date. “The decision is bound profoundly to influence the future development of the party’s policy,” the “NewsChronicle” adds. “This means that the appeal to the electors is henceforth to be made on a series of practical proposals instead of the policy of general socialism and nationalisation which has hitherto been the party platform.”

SIR S. CRIPPS’ EXPULSION i

(Recd. February 26, S a.m.) LONDON, February 25. National Labour executive postponed for a month the decision regarding the expulsion of Sir S. Cripps. The “Daily Herald” says that letters from affiliated societies reveal a wide division of opinion, many holding that the expulsion would lead to serious disunity. MR. LLOYD GEORGE. [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] RUGBY, February 24. Mr. Lloyd George, who has represented Carnarvon Boroughs in Parliament continuously since 1890, has been re-elected president for the Pwllheli Liberal Association for the forty-sev-enth year in succession..

M.P’S. SUDDEN DEATH.

[BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.]

RUGBY, Rebruary 24.

Sir Henry Jackson, M.P., collapsed and died after delivering a speech at a dinner last night. The Parliamentary by-election made necessary by his death brings the total number of byelections now pending to six.

Sir Henry Jackson represented Central Wandsworth from 1924 to 1929, and from 1931. He was born in 1875.