LABOUR IN BRITAIN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22051, 6 September 1933, Page 7

LABOUR IN BRITAIN

THE CONGRESS OPENED DICTATORSHIPS DENOUNCED. f ~~ LONDON, September 4. The Bixty-fifth Trades Union Congress opened at Brighton, admittedly at a crucial stage in the history of organised Labour., The speeches were practically unanimous in denouncing political dictatorships of various European forms. Mr A. G. Walkden, in his presidential address, expressed the opinion that the classes who felt their dominance slipping away were making a determined effort to re-establish it. Democracy was being assailed because it was successful, not because it had failed. Fascism everywhere was anti-parliamentarian and fanatically anti-Socialist, exploiting patriotism and the enthusiasm of the generation which had grown up since the war. Mr Walkden appealed to the young people not to be led away by flashy new movements, the goal of which was political dictatorship, culminating in State absolution, which denied free and voluntary organisations the right to exist. THE PARLIAMENTARY PARTY. MR LANSBURY'S LEADERSHIP. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 4. According to the News-Chronicle's political correspondent, Mr Henderson's election for Clay Cross definitely does not raise the question of his succeeding Mr Lansbury as leader of the Labour Parliamentary Party. MEMBERSHIP OF UNIONS. DECREASE SINCE LAST CONGRESS (British Official Wlieless.) RUGBY, September 4. >' (Received Sept. 5, at 9 p.m.) At the opening of the congress there were 564 delegates, representing 208 unions with a membership of 3,367,911, a decrease since the last congress of 245,362.