COMMUNIST MENACE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 October 1927, Page 5

COMMUNIST MENACE.

BARS TEACHERS FROM OFFICIAL LABOUR PARTY. HAVELOCK WILSON BERATED, (By Telegraph-i’ress Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, October 3rd. The Labourites have assembled at Blackpool for the annual conference. The first business was raised by the question why the Teachers' Labour League was disaffiliated. Mr Ramsay Macdonald explained that teachers are a body that the Labour Party are anxious to have within the party, but individual members of the League are so openly Communistic that there is no option but to disaffiliate the League. The .Conference then gave attention to Mr Havelock Wilson, as a result of the executive’s report expressing regret at the Seamen’s Union’s secession. Mr Crick asked why was the union not disaffiliated? No man had done more to damage political Labour than Mr Havelock Wilson. Mr Herbert Smith moved to omit the word “regret” because, he said, the seamen were better out of than in the movement. It looked as if the executive had been attending a prayer meeting. \ Mr Arthur Henderson said that in view of what recently happened, the executive, in deference to the conference’s wishes, would withdraw . the word “regret.” The afternoon was devoted to secret discussions on the serious state of the .finances notwithstanding that the affiliation fees had been doubled.