BRITISH LABOUR VIEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19138, 6 October 1936, Page 6

BRITISH LABOUR VIEWS

MEANS TEST OPPOSED ENT m NA TIONAL OUTLOOK (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 1 p.m. RUGBY. Oct. 5. At the opening of the annual conference of the British Labour Party at Edinburgh, Airs. ,T. L. Adamson presided over an attendance of about 750 delegates. In her speech, she demanded an abolition of the household means lest and criticised the Government housing programme. Referring to the international situation, she demanded the strengthening of the League of Nations. Wluvt 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. NON-INTERVENTION STAND CIVIL .WAR TX SPAIN (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 1.30 p.m. RUGBY. Oct. 5. At the Labour Party conference, Mr. Arthur Greenwood reminded the delegates that tin l policy of non-intervention in the civil war in Spain was one for which (lie Socialist head of the Front .Pnpujaire Government in France, At. Leon Blum, admitted responsibility. The initiative came from Al. Blum’s 'Government and received the support of ■Soviet Russia. .If had become the united opinion of Europe. Socialist mid nonidealist. said Air. Greenwood, that nonintervention was the retd way out of (he verv grave and serious situation.