BRITISH LABOUR PROTEST

Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1933, Page 7

BRITISH LABOUR PROTEST

ACTION OF GERMAN NAZIS foreign secretary met BRITISH FASCISM FEARED LABOUR CONGRESS REPORT British Wireless. Rugby, Aug. 31. Sir John Simon, Foreign Secretary, today received a deputation from the Independent Labour Party, headed by Mr. James Maxton, M.P. According to Mr. Maxton the deputation desired to express to the Foreign Secretary the intense feeling among the British working class with regard to the treatment of certain people by the present regime in Germany. Mr. Maxton says the Foreign Secretary assured the deputation that the British Government was watching happenings in Germany with the closest attention. The General Council of the Trades Union Congress adopted the report of the ‘ secretary, Mr. Walter Citrine, on dictatorships and trade unionism, especially emphasising the events in Europe culminating in Herr Hitler’s attack on trades unionism.

He focussed attention on the menace of a dictatorship, and declared that Fascism in Britain, though apparently not materially increasing, must be ruthlessly exposed. There was a widespread suspicion that, like the Nazis, it was being financed 'by industrialists. If so, such people were playing with ffre. The report, presumably _ referring to quarrels among the British Labour movement, says that the unions would welcome any improvement in the Parliamentary scheme not encroaching on public, liberties, but would resist any attempt to supersede Parliament or undermine its democratic working.