CLASH EXPECTED

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 7 September 1925, Page 5

CLASH EXPECTED

AT LABOUR CONFERENCE. SPLIT IN PARTY POSSIBLE. MODERATES v. EXTREMES. SY CAiILfi—PKESS ASSOCIATION —COPY EIGHT (Received Seii. 7, 10.18 a.m.) LONDON, Sep. 6. Labour writers agree that the Trade Union. Congress, which is opening at Scarborough on Monday, will be unusually important, as there might possibly be a 6plit in the Labour Party. The Observer says a clash is expected between moderates like Messrs Thomas and Clynes, who stand for the amelioration of workers’ conditions within the structure of the existing industrial system, and the left wingers who are desiring to organise a movement for the definite purpose of overthrowing the whole structure. Newspapers therefore display a rebuff to the left wingers on the eve of the congress in the shape of a letter from the secretary of the congress, telling Mr Pollitt, 'who sent forward the minority movement resolutions passed at their recent conference, that the council reiterates its last year’s decision to act only in accordance with the views of properly accredited representatives of affiliated trade unions. This is interpreted as an intimation that congress refuses to deal with the extreme left organisations.—A. and N.Z. Assn.