ELECTION LITERATURE.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 13, Issue 36, 5 September 1923, Page 9

ELECTION LITERATURE.

The Press Department reports thai the "Labour Magazine" has taken its place as the premier Labour periodical, and has an assured and growing circulation both within and among the general public. An idea of the immense output of literature during the general election may be gathered from the statement that from July 1, 1922, to April 3D. 1923, orders were received for 15,108>,000 leaflets, 204,695 poster* and s 200 election,, parcels (containing election forms, etc.). Forty-seven local newspapers, based on the Labour Press Service, were issued during the election. It is intended to issue the "Labour Year Book" next autumn and "WeieWfcr Notes for Speakers" are among th« developments foreshadowed. RESEARCH WORK. The Joint Research and Information Department has produced during the year a number of important memoranda and conducted various investigations. The last-named includes a survey of the Trade Union Movement. A report on the Wool Textile and Allied Unions has been published, and reports on the printing, transport, and mining industries are nearly complete. Since the Labour Party became the official Opposition a room in tho House of Commons has been placed at the disposal of the department, and material assistance has been re&iftaped to the party. THE INTERNATIONAL. ~ The part of the report dealing witl» the conference at Hamburg last month, when the International was reconstituted, clears up an incident which was distorted in the capitalist press. -The British delegation abstained from voting on the resolution relating to Russia because they thought that the points were already well covered by the principal resolution OB "Working-class Action against International Reaction." They objected to certain and they were averse from placing the new International in a relation of special hostility to the Russian Soviet Government. They therefore abstained from voting. Owing to the condition of the International monetary exchange thl question of subscription to the new International presented some difficulty. The problem is to be solved by basing the levy on a contribution per member equivalent in the pre-war currency of the country concerned. This contribution will then -be multiplied by the number of times whicli wages have increased, and bo payable In pounds sterling at tho current rates of exchange.