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LABOUR PARTY.

BIG CONFERENCE AGENDA.

DRASTIC AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED. iY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, Sep. 16.. A formidable agenda has been issued for the Labour Party’s annual conference, opening at Liverpool on September 29. In addition to. the executive’s own motions, traversing practically every phase of Labour policy,' the ments, indicating an insistent and widespread effort to “ginger up” the party’s programme. ' One branch seeks' to refer* back to the executive the policy statement in toto on the ground,that it _is_,. totally inadequate for a party existing to achieve the foundation of a Socialist state. ■ * •••

The executive, in. outlining “a Labour policy for the British commonwealth of nations,” demands closer personal contact between the British and Dominion Governments, a survey -of land resources with a view . to the scientific redistribution of population and increase in production, the training of emigrants, and the hulk purchases of food by the Government from the Dominions.* To this policy drastic amendments are being submitted, one declaring: “It is contrary to interests of the working classes to describe Britain’s slave empire as a commonwealth of .nations.” It condemns all emigration schemes ,on the ground “that the party should seek to win this country for worker’s, not send l them overseas.” ' rAnother denounces “capitalist brigandage in the shape of Imperial schemes for the development of emigration, which is only a method of fastening, capitalist exploitation more firmly upon the workers.” Another wants to assist colonial workers’ neasant movements iff -Order to develop an anti-imperialist united front.

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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 17 September 1925, Page 5

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LABOUR PARTY. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 17 September 1925, Page 5

LABOUR PARTY. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 17 September 1925, Page 5

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