GREENWOOD RESIGNS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20136, 4 January 1940, Page 7

GREENWOOD RESIGNS

CENSURE OF FACTION UNIVERSITY GROUP AGAINST LABOUR POLICY (British Olliciul Witness.) Reed. 12 noon RUGBY, Jan. 3. A conference of the University Labour Federation—an organisation based on students’ societies in United Kingdom universities with Labour sympathies, which has not infrequently found itself at variance with the official Labour Party policy—today passed a resolution which urges that the task of the Labour movement is to lead the working class in a determined struggle against what it describes as war for profits and world domination for which it holds ‘.‘Hitler, Fascism and British and French lm perialism” equally responsible. Mr. Arthur Greenwood, the deputy leader of the Labour Party, severed bis connection with the organisation in protest against the resolution.

Mr. Greenwood said: “The resolution is, in fact, a contradiction ;b u' established and reaffirmed policy of organised Labour. It decreases the policy of the leaders pf the Labour movement and trade unions and endangers the whole future of the Labour movement.

“As I am whole-heartedly in support of Labour’s policy, overwhelmingly supported by the’rank and file, and as one on whom the censure of the federation executive has now fallen, 1 feel it m-ers

the presidency of the federation.”