EXPULSION FROM LABOUR PARTY

Southland Times, Issue 24421, 29 April 1941, Page 6

EXPULSION FROM LABOUR PARTY

ACTION TAKEN AGAINST UNION DELEGATES

On the allegation that they had persistently engaged in disruptive activities, two would-be union delegates to the recent New Zealand Labour Party conference were disqualified from acting and expelled from the party. According to a report published in the Labour paper, The Standard, action was taken on the recommendation of the Credentials Committee, which reported that evidence had been produced before it to show that the two men were actively campaigning against the Labour Party’s war policy, were opposed in almost every other direction to the party’s policy, and, in one instance at least, had associated themselves with anti-war resolutions couched in the usual Communist phraseology. “On practically every Trades Council in New Zealand there are men who are not game to ask their unions to disaffiliate, but who come along in the guise of members of the Federation and the Labour Party to put over the jargon they get from the Communist Party,” said Mr F. G. Young, president of the Credentials Committee.'

The motions that the men be disqualified and expelled from the party were carried with 12 and four dissentients respectively. They then left the conference.