BRITISH LABOUR PARTY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19966, 7 December 1926, Page 10

BRITISH LABOUR PARTY.

ITS FUTURE PROSPECTS. MITIGATION OF “DISORDERS.” (Special to Daily Times.) WELLINGTON, December 6. Tho Under-Secretary for Scotland in tha short-lived Ramsay MacDonald Labour Government of 1523, Mr J. Stewart, M.P. for Strollex, Glasgow, arrived at Wellington by the Tahiti to-day. Mr Stewart is now on his way Homo after visiting Australia as a member of tho British section of the Empire Parliamentary Delegation at the recent congress there. Mr Stewart said that he found Australia a wonderful country with v. underfill people. The hospitality and kindness was unsurpassable, and every effort was devoted to let the party see and understand Australia, its climate, its problems and its people. “Interchanging ideas as we did,” added Mr Stewart, “and educating tho meinbors of the British and dominion Parliaments ba to what our Empire is and what arc its resources and possibilities convinces me more than ever as a result of my visit to Australia that travel is the greatest educational factor of all. I hope that these visits between the peoples of the various parts of the British Commonwealth will be developed and more frequently undeitaken, as they can only be productive of pood Knowledge gives understanding ignorance is not bliss.” Questioned as to the future prospects of "the Labour Party in England. Mr Stewart said that at the recent municipal elections at Home, as far as the mdustnal parts of Britain were concerned, the party considerably increased its vote and numbers. There was a probability of die Labour Party not, only being in office again, but in power with a working majority He explained Unit when the party was in office in 1923-C.4 it wn-. only as a small minoiity government not in a position to pass legislation such as it desired, and which would have been passed had tho partv had a majority Government Referring to disorderly scenes in UKHouse of Commons Mr Stewart stated tnat disorder was not unknown in other paitic . Two members now sitting on ' - - ment benches, the Right Hon \\i ndon Churchill. Chancellor of the ExciMuer. and the Hon. Ronald N Ned, Unu ® r Secretary for Foreign Affairs, were one involved in a memorable disturbance »n the House" when Mr Churchill was a member of’ the Home Rele Government, and M‘Neill was in oppo f'‘T threw The latter picking up a book threw across the floor of the House at Mr Churchill’s head. In fact them more disorderly scenes and fraoa. s ; nce Conservatives and Liberals ruled than since the advent of the Labour Party.