LABOUR CONFERENCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23005, 7 October 1936, Page 9

LABOUR CONFERENCE

DELEGATES IN EDINBURGH THE OPENING SESSION (British Official Wirelessi RUGBY, Oct. 5. Tne annual conference of the Labour Party was opened at Edinburgh, Mrs J. L. Adamson presiding over an attendance of about. 750 delegates. In her speech she demanded the abolition ■of the household means test and criticised the Government housing programme. Referring to the international situation, she demanded the strengthening of the League. What was needed, she said, was readiness on the part of statesmen to act upon the convictions of the peoples they represented. The chief desire of the peoples was for peace. Mr Arthur Greenwood reminded delegates that the non-intervention policy in Spain was one for which the Socialist head of the Front Populaire Government in France (M. Blum) admitted responsibility. The initiative came from M. Blum's Government and received the support of Soviet Russia. It had become the united opinioi. of Europe, Socialist and non-Idealist, said Mr Greenwood, that non-intervention was the real way out of a very grave and serious situation. RESOLUTIONS CARRIED LONDON, Oct. 5 The Labour conference at Edinburgh carried a resolution deploring yesterday's events in the East End, condemning the Government for not banning the Fascist march and demanding the prohibition of political uniforms and militarised politics. The conference supported nonintervention in Spain by a huge maiori ! y ' r^erfM