LABOUR CONGRESS.
■ EMIGR ATION QUESTION .A./ : -
BANNING OF COMMUNISTS
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Received Sept. 8, 9.35 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 7. Mr Ben Tillett, at the Labour Conference, on behalf of the General Council, attacked ( the methods of emigration, which, he said, were long obsolete and often criminal. The flower of manhood and womanhood Was going out and not getting.a fair deal. Mr Poulton said he was afraid that emigration was lowering the wage standard in the colonies.
The Congress passed a resolution instructing the council to seek special regulations. The Comipunist Party has issued a protest against the Labour Party banning Communists as Parliamentary candidates, which it stigmatises as an act of servility towards the class elements flowing into the Labour Party. The protest concludes: “We will fight the decision which interferes with the right of a trade union to select a candidate considered the fittest.” —Reuter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 September 1924, Page 9
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