TOM MANN FOR AFRICA.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10891, 4 March 1914, Page 5

TOM MANN FOR AFRICA.

MACDONALD'S APPEAL.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

London, March 3

Tom Mann sails for South Africa on Saturday. It is denied that Larkin and Tillett are going. Capetown, March 3. Mr Merriman moved the deletion of the banishment clause. He declared that there was no foundation for deportation except prejudice. The Government asked the House to join it in committing a crime. The lawlessness of the deportsds was to a certain extent condoned by the lawlessness of the Government. The motion was rejected without a division and the clause confirming deportation and banishment was carried by 73 to 15. London, March 3.

Mr Ramsay Macdonald, on behalf of the joint Labour orgonisations, cabled General Botha; ‘ Remember the attitude of British Labour when South Africa went to war. Withdraw the banishment clause. ’ Gen eral Botha replied that he was much impressed, but was that the withdrawal would not be in tbe interests df organised labour In South Africa.