N.Z. LABOUR PARTY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 89, 30 March 1932, Page 8

N.Z. LABOUR PARTY

ANNUAL CONFERENCE TWO MEMBERS’ SUSPENSION CONGRATULATED ON STAND „ „ Wellington, March 29. Mr W. J. Jordan, M.P., was to-day elected national president of the New Zealand Labour Party which is at present holding its sixteenth annual conference in Wellington. Mr W. Atkinson was appointed vice-president and Mr J. T. Thorn national secretary. Mr H. E. Holland presented the report of the Parliamentary Labour Party, which reviewed the work of the various sessions and outlined its attitude toward each of the measures introduced.

Discussing the future, Mr Holland said that when the House resumed the Labour Party would be called upon to make another sustained fight against further wage and salary reductions and attacks on social services and various classes of pensions.

The following resolutions were passed:— “This conference congratulates Messrs P. Fraser, M.P., and J. A. Lee, M.P., on the stand taken by them under the circumstances which resulted in their suspension.’’

“That this conference of the New Zealand Labour Party places on record its high appreciation of the efforts of its Parliamentary representatives in their magnificent and strenuous fight against the destructive and hopeless class legislation of the Coalition Government. ’ ’

“That this conference approves of a shorter working day or week as being an effective method of dealing with unemployment. ’ ’ The conference will bo continued tomorrow.