ACUTE VARIANCE
BRITISH LABOURITES INDEPENDENTS’ ATTITUDE. MANY FAVOUR DEFECTION. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, April 5. The delegates to the Independent Labour Party’s Conference, by 173 votes to 37, rejected a motion to instruct the council to break away from the Labour Party. However, a considerable volume of opinion in the conference favoured a split. Attacks upon the Government were cheered. Mr A. Fenner Brockway, member of the House of. Commons for Leyton East, was elected chairman of the party, Mr A. F. Broekway formerly was editor of the “Labour Leader.” He was elected member for Leyton East at the last general election by a majority of 2420 votes over the Conservative candidate, Mr iE, E. Alexander, who had held it previously. In 1923 Mr Brockway was appointed secretary of the Independent Labour 'Party in succession to Mr Francis Johnson.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NA19310407.2.41
Bibliographic details
Northern Advocate, 7 April 1931, Page 5
Word Count
144ACUTE VARIANCE Northern Advocate, 7 April 1931, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Northern Advocate. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence . This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.