LABOUR PARTY CONGRESS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17772, 7 October 1927, Page 9

LABOUR PARTY CONGRESS.

Lively Scene At Blackpool.

■TACK JONES IN THE PICTURE

By Cablo—Press Association—Ccpyrlffht. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.

(Received Oct. 0, 5.5 p.iji-) LONDON, Oct. 5

There was a wild scene at the Blackpool Labour Party Conference, when the women delegates attempted to make birth control a party plank, against tho decision of the Executive.

Immediately a delegate opposed the proposal, “as a member of an Irish Catholic family.”

Feeling ran high when a remark by Mr Jack Jones, M.P., angered the Conference.

Mr A. J. Cook rushed to the platform, shouting: “You fool; you big fool; you’re the fool of the Labour Party. Withdraw.” Mr Jones refusing to withdraw, invited the delegates to try to thrbw him out. “They can’t muzzle me in the House of Commons, and I won’t be muzzled here.”

Pandemonium reigned, until Mr Jones withdrew without apology. Eventually the Conference, defeated by 2,885,000 votes to 225,000 an attempt to refer the subject back to the executive.

STRAIGHT TALK TO LABOUR. “ NATIONALISATION THE ONLY CURE.” By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. Vist.-aluin and N.Z. Cai-'.a Association. LONDON, October 5. Mr MacDonald, in a remarkable speech, in moving the Labour Conference motion deploring the state of tlie coal industry, said lie had been accused of grovelling during the strike, because bo hoped the employers would show a fine attitude of mind. “When I see clouds threatening the destruction of our men and women, if I can get accommodation by going on my knees, I shall do so, and not feel that 1 am forleiting respect, but that having been done, I confess I am a. disillusioned man. Henceforth we shall give you not only our tongues, but'our brains. Nationalisation is the only cure.” Mr Herbert Smith thanked Mr -MacDonald for such a message, and added: “Wo miners ar© going to be tbe missionaries of tlie fight through the ballot box, not. through the stomachs of our women and children. We shall not accept Mr Lloyd George’s chloroform.”