BRITISH LABOUR

Grey River Argus, 16 April 1925, Page 5

BRITISH LABOUR

party uonfi:ri:n«t: LONDON, April 1 1 An impassioned speech by Mr Maxton, M.P., marked the resumption of the Labour Conference at Gloucester. When Mr Hugh Dalton. ALP., moved the adoption of the majority report of the financial inquiry comniitte-' favouring the ’payment of conpensation to owners of nationalised industries and declaring confiscation was inexpedient. Air Maxton strongly opposed the proposal for compensation. He declared that profit was robbery. He did not believe that nationalisation would occur gradually. Capitalism. was cracking’ up. The problem was not how to transfer property in twenty years’ time, but how to create a new social system on the ruins of tho old one. The conference decided to refer the report hack to the branches. SECRET TREATIES. POWER OF REPUDIATION. LONDON, April 15. The Labour Party’s Conference has concluded. There was a resolution passed protesting against the Government’s return to secret diplomacy. A resolution was also passed directing that the following resolution be submitted to the next. Labour Party Conference: “That a Labour Government should be free to repudiate any secret treaty ngroemont made by its credo cosher. ’ ’