RIGHT TO LIVE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 6 April 1926, Page 5

RIGHT TO LIVE

LARtH-irs DEMAND ;\sv EllccT.rif! ToloKraph.—Copyrißht.) (A'jHtrftJian A N.Z. Cabin Assooiation) ' LONDON, April 5. Mr Jowelt, an ex-Minister, president of the Independent Labour Party Conference, declared that the right to live was a fundamental demand and Labour must keep it in Ihe forefront and boldly announce thai the.next Labour Government, wilh or without a majority in the Commons, was determined to take decisive action in the direction of socialism. During Ihe past, five years British workers' wages have been reduced by the colossal total of 590 millions. An. increase in wurkers' incomes of 5/v.eekly per child out of State revenues would increase the workers' spending powers sufficient to remove all unemployment. He agreed with American Ambassador Houghton that European statesmen had learned nothing by thewar. "We were back to. [ire-war rivalries. The present capitalist policies must inevitably drown Europe in a sea of blood unless international labour organised resistance. The Party stood for internationalism as well as socialism in our time.' 1

PARTY SLOGAN LONDON. April 5 '"■Socialisation in our time" was adopted as the slogan at the Independent Labour Parly conference. Most of the speakers.(.xprcssed the opinion (bat they would not live lo- see it if the slow ollicial labour policy were continued. Sonic delegates asked llieir colleague. Lady Cynthia Mosley if it were true that she was giving up her title. She replied: "I would like to. but I cannot. 1' have been called it all my life. People will continue lo do so."' As if to prove otherwise many delegates persisted in calling her Comrade Cynthia./ husband- Oswald told an interviewer that if ever his father's haroiiele;» cane his way he would certainly lake steps lo relinquish it. Mosl ol the afternoon was spent in ihe discussion of the National Council's programme, which was adopted with minor amendments. The policy includes full maintenance during unemployment : payments to mothers according lo tiie number of each household: control of prices; and nationalisation of food imports.