LABOUR CONFERENCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 268, 12 October 1932, Page 7

LABOUR CONFERENCE.

FIVE-YEAR PLANS. , REMOVAL OF MR MACDONALD. At the Labour Conference in England a five-year plan—one of a series of plans—for the complete overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of Socialism will be discussed. The national executive will lead the way with proposals for securing, in five years of Socialist rule, national control of banking, currency, transport, electricity and agriculture. The report of the national executive committee condemns the Government “for its disgraceful electoral methods, its flagrant misuse of the power Which it obtained thereby, and the lamentable failure of tjie policies which it has pursued.” Among the resolutions to be presented are no fewer than five conuemning the action of party leaders, for forming the National Government, and one demands that steps should be taken to have the constitution of the party amended, so that the Prime Minister, Mr MacDonald, and others who joined the Government at the last election can be debarred from becoming members of the Labour Party in-the future.

It is an interesting fact that sinpe the conference last assembled, the Labour Party has met with unprecedented disaster. The recent election cost it nearly 2,000,000 votes and £20,000 from party funds, and also reduced its strength in the House of Commons from 264 to 46. It is now proposed to make a compulsory levy upon all unions and other organisations for a permanent by-election fund, the payments to rango from 15s to more than £9 for each by-election.