LABOUR IN RUSSIA.
DEBATE IN THE LORDS.
GOVERNMENT ATTACKED.
INDIGNATION OF BISHOP.
By Telegraph—Press . Association—Copyright. (Received February 6, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 5. In the House of Lords Lord Newton, a former Conservative Under-Secretary Tor Foreign Affairs, initiated a debato on labour conditions in Russia. Ho said the Soviet's own documents showed that every citizen was cither a military or an industrial conscript. Tlio Bishop of Durham, Dr. Henslev Henson, said conditions in Russia raised a moral question which they could not leave unanswered without losing national self-respect. Tlio whole episcopate felt sorrow, consternation and shame over Britain's relations with the Soviet. Even at the eleventh hour the Government ought responsibly to dissociate the whole Empire from the abominable proceedings in Russia. Dr. Henson criticised the failure of the trade unions to manifest sympathy with their fellow workers in Russia. Lord Ponsonby, replying for the Government, said ho did not desire to defend the. Soviet Government System or the labour conditions in Russia. There might be horrors in Russia, but they could not set out to correct every country with different standards of morality and social decency from their own.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20792, 7 February 1931, Page 11
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