NEW LABOUR PARTY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 15 May 1928, Page 5

NEW LABOUR PARTY.

PROPOSED FOR. SOUTH AFRICA. LEADER, BREAKS AWAY FROM ORGANISATION. UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION-BY ELECT Hl* TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (UNITED SERVICE.) CAPETOWN, May 18. Colonel Cress well, Minister of Defence and Leader of the Labour Party, is issuing a manifesto, probably tomorrow, announcing the decision to cut the gordian knot in the long standing Labour Party leud by the definite establishment of a new party on Labour principles. He bases the party on a new arrangement with the Nationalists. under which his party wifi receive seats in the Pact Cabinet after the next election proportionate to their numbers returned at the poll. Colonel Cresswell claims to have the support of 90 per cent, of Labour opinion in South Africa, and blames the National Council of the Labour Party for having precipitated this final and definite breach. Colonel Cresswell thus cuts himself entirely from the National Council, which is the organising machine of the existing Labour Party. National opinion is that the feud could have been settled if the National Council, operating from Johannesburg, had not manoeuvred and intrigued to secure supremacy in the Parliamentary- caucus, as the Labour Parliamentarians were otherwise prepared to reconcile their differences, but the prospect of reconciliation has now disappeared, Colonel Cresswell having taken what is regarded as an irrevocable • step, aiming to re-establish himself in the eyes of the British workers, who condemned his flag policy because of his condemnation of the Semitic influence which was paramount in the National Council of the Labour’Party.