COMING LABOUR CONGRESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19125, 17 September 1925, Page 9

COMING LABOUR CONGRESS.

FORMIDABLE AGENDA PAPER CRITICISM OF EXECUTIVE. MORE u GINGER" WANTEDS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 1i.15 p.m.) ~ . A. and N.Z. LONDON. Sept, 15. A formidable agenda has been issued for the Labour Party's annual conference, which will •be opened in Liverpool on September 29. In addition to the executive's own motions, which traverse practically every phase of ' the Labour policy, the various branches have tabled many sweeping amendments, which indicate an insisent and widespread effort to put more "ginger" into the party's programme. • - • \ One branch seeks to refer back to the executive its policy statement in tot'o, on the ground that it is totally inadequate for a party which exists to achieve the foundation of the Socialist state. The executive, in outlining the "Labour policy for a British Commonwealth of Nations," demands that there shall be a closer personal contact between the British and the Dominion Governments; a survey of the Empire land resources with a view to a scientific redistribution of population, and increase of production; the training of emigrants; and bulk purchaser of food by the Government from the Dominions. To this policy drastic amendments are being submitted. One amendment declares that is is contrary to the interests of the working classes to describe Britain's slave Empire as a Commonwealth of Nations. The amendment condemns all emigration schemes on the ground that the party should seek to win this country for the workers and not to send them overseas! Another amendment denounces "Capitalist brigandage in the shape of Imperial schemes of development and emigration, which are only a method of fastening capitalist exploitation more firmly upon the workers." "