LABOUR CONFERENCE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21467, 15 April 1933, Page 11

LABOUR CONFERENCE

MEETING IN AUCKLAND FOUR DAYS OF DISCUSSION _ a COMMENCEMENT ON MONDAY The annual conference of the New Zealand Labour Party, which, for the first time for seven years, is to be held in Auckland, will commence on Monday morning in the Trades Hall. Although the financial stringency is expected to prevent the usual number of delegates from attending it is probable that about 80 representatives of Labour organisations will be present. The delegates will include Labour members of Parliament resident in both islands, and the large industrial unions will be well represented. Some of the delegates, including Messrs. J. Thorne, national secretary of the party, and T. Wilson, assistant secretary, both of Wellington, arrived in Auckland yesterday. The president, Mr. W. J. Jordan, M.P., is absent in England, and the vice-president, Mr. W. Atkinson, is unable to attend. Mr. H. E. Holland, Leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party, will arrive on Monday, while a number of delegates will arrive to-day and to-morrow. The conference will last for four days, commencing at 9..'30 each morning and finishing each evening at 9.30, with each day divided into three sessions. After the election of a conference chairman the first business on Monday will probably be the presentation by the national executive of the report and balance-sheet and the presentation, by Mr. Holland, of the ' Parliamentary Labour Party's report. To-morrow evening a public meeting in the Prince Edward Theatre will be addressed by Messrs. M. J. Savage, P. Eraser, J. McC'ombs and C. L. Carr, M.P.'s, and on Wednesday evening a reception will be tendered the visiting delegates in the Labour Party Hall,- Karangahape lioad. A great number of remits bearing on •political and economic questions, and including a suggestion that the name of the party should be changed to the New Zealand Socialist Party, will be discussed. An Auckland remit will propose that a committee be appointed to formulate a " three years' plan," specifying a policy of legislation to be followed in the event of Labour securing the reins of Government.